Alert archive / Oklahoma / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2012, 2:33 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 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 19, 2012, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</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 19, 12:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 12:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 12:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1250 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2012
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-192245-
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-
1250 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2012
THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
RISK...ELEVATED.
AREA...FAR EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
ONSET...ONGOING.
FIRE WEATHER DANGER.
RISK...LIMITED.
AREA... NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
ONSET...ONGOING.
DISCUSSION...
WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND FAR EASTERN OKLAHOMA AS A
MID-LEVEL WAVE MOVES ACROSS. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD
PRODUCE BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO AND THROUGH THE REGION TODAY
WITH CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR
EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A
LIMITED SEVERE POTENTIAL OF STRONG WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD PUSH OUT
OF THE REGION THIS EVENING WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT.
BREEZY NORTHERLY WINDS AROUND 15 MPH WILL RESULT IN AR LIMITED FIRE
DANGER OVER PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA...ESPECIALLY OVER PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THAT RECEIVED LITTLE RAINFALL YESTERDAY.
SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
MONDAY...NO HAZARDS.
TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MAY DEVELOP LATE MONDAY NIGHT TO THE
NORTHWEST AND MOVE INTO PARTS OF THE REGION TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE SECOND HALF OF THE UPCOMING WEEK
AND INTO THE WEEKEND AS DISTURBANCES PUSH ACROSS THE PLAINS WITHIN A
WESTERLY UPPER LEVEL FLOW. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR TEMPERATURES TO
REMAIN NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE THROUGH THE WEEK.
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:33 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 30 min |
| Aug 19, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 28 min |
| Aug 19, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 29 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.