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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2012, 7:14 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2012, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 12, 6:21 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 6:21 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 4:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 445 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-130945- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 445 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012 ...CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...PRIMARILY SOUTH AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 44. ONSET...AFTER 5 PM. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...ONGOING. FIRE WEATHER DANGER. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHWEST OF A MCALESTER TO FAYETTEVILLE LINE. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY LATE AFTERNOON. HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS WITH BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS PREVAIL AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND WITH THE ONGOING DROUGHT CONDITIONS...FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS WILL BE RAISED. ADDITIONALLY...ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN TWO MAIN AREAS. STORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA LATER ON. IN ADDITION...DATA INDICATES THAT A FEW STORMS COULD FIRE OVER FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ALONG THE FRONT AND MOVE INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS THE FRONT SLOWLY PUSHES SOUTHEASTWARD. ANY STORM WHICH FORM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL CARRY A RISK OF BOTH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT. HEAT INDICES IN THE 100 TO 104 RANGE ARE OBSERVED OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WHERE DEWPOINTS ARE HIGHER. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY LATE AFTERNOON ON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MONDAY...VERY HIGH FIRE WEATHER POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...VERY HIGH FIRE WEATHER POTENTIAL. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... BREEZY NORTH WINDS AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS WILL YIELD AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER ON MONDAY. DATA CONTINUES TO INDICATE THAT A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS AND MOVE INTO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. THE BOUNDARY THAT IS PRODUCED FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL REMAIN IN THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND MAY SUPPORT ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT. AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER DAY IS EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AS WELL AHEAD OF ANOTHER FRONT. A STRONG COLD FRONT IS STILL EXPECTED TO ARRIVE ON THURSDAY...BRINGING COOLER TEMPERATURES AND HIGHER RAIN AND STORM CHANCES THROUGH FRIDAY. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 7:14 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
714 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012
OKZ049-130100-
PUSHMATAHA OK-
714 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHWESTERN PUSHMATAHA
AT 715 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES NORTHWEST
OF MOYERS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ANTLERS...DELA...MOYERS...FINLEY...
KOSOMA...KELLOND...EUBANKS AND DUNBAR.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3427 9579 3450 9579 3451 9578 3451 9568
3452 9568 3452 9544 3416 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 0015Z 285DEG 27KT 3442 9589The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 34 min |
| Aug 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 54 min |
| Aug 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Sequoyah | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 12 min |
| Aug 12, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 10:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes | 13 min |
| Aug 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 53 min |
| Aug 12, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 54 min |
| Aug 12, 11:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 29 min |
| Aug 13, 1:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 24 min |
| Aug 13, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 29 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.