Alert archive / Arkansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this wind advisory at Dec 20, 2012, 1:09 PM CST for Adair County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2012, 1:09 PM CST (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2012, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
274 WWUS74 KTSA 201909 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 109 PM CST THU DEC 20 2012 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ069-072-076-202300- /O.NEW.KTSA.WI.Y.0016.121220T1909Z-121220T2300Z/ BENTON-CARROLL-WASHINGTON AR-MADISON-CRAWFORD-FRANKLIN-SEBASTIAN- ADAIR-SEQUOYAH-LE FLORE- 109 PM CST THU DEC 20 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...ADAIR...SEQUOYAH AND LE FLORE. IN ARKANSAS...BENTON...SEBASTIAN...WASHINGTON...CARROLL... MADISON...CRAWFORD AND FRANKLIN. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * STRONG WINDS ARE MIXING DOWN FROM ALOFT TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AT THE SURFACE OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN OKLAHOMA. IMPACTS... * WIND GUST VALUES IN THE 40 TO 45 MPH RANGE. * WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. DEFINITION... * A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. EXTRA ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CROSS WINDS AND ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER EVENT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT: WEATHER.GOV/TULSA. && $$
1 follow-up statement
131 WWUS74 KTSA 202300 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 500 PM CST THU DEC 20 2012 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ069-072-076-210000- /O.EXP.KTSA.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-121220T2300Z/ BENTON-CARROLL-WASHINGTON AR-MADISON-CRAWFORD-FRANKLIN-SEBASTIAN- ADAIR-SEQUOYAH-LE FLORE- 500 PM CST THU DEC 20 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...ADAIR...SEQUOYAH AND LE FLORE. IN ARKANSAS...BENTON...SEBASTIAN...WASHINGTON...CARROLL... MADISON...CRAWFORD AND FRANKLIN. * THE STRONG WINDS HAVE DECREASED LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 7:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 32 min |
| Dec 19, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 44 min |
| Dec 19, 8:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 45 min |
| Dec 19, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 40 min |
| Dec 19, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 45 min |
| Dec 19, 8:50 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 55 min |
| Dec 19, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 36 min |
| Dec 19, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| Dec 19, 9:23 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 67 min |
| Dec 19, 9:34 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 56 min |
| Dec 19, 9:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 9:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 24 min |
| Dec 19, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian | 63 min |
| Dec 19, 9:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 11 min |
| Dec 19, 10:20 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 40 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.