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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 19, 2012Cherokee County, Oklahoma

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 478 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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
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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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair, Cherokee33 min
Aug 19, 3:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair, Cherokee24 min
Aug 19, 3:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah30 min
Aug 19, 3:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWagoner32 min
Aug 19, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah33 min
Aug 19, 4:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah34 min
Aug 19, 5:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell32 min
Aug 19, 2:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMadison25 min
Aug 19, 2:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAFranklin28 min
Aug 19, 3:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford24 min
Aug 19, 3:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford29 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.