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Freeze Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 18, 20137 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this freeze warning at Apr 18, 2013, 3:30 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 19, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 18, 2013, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 19, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 19, 2013, 8:26 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 2013-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 2013-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 18, 2:58 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 2:58 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 12:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 18, 9:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
940 AM CDT THU APR 18 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0930 AM     FLOOD            7 S BIXBY               35.84N 95.88W
04/18/2013                   OKMULGEE           OK   BROADCAST MEDIA

            WATER ACROSS THE ROAD AT INTERSECTION OF BIXBY ROAD AND
            HECTORVILLE ROAD. SOCIAL MEDIA

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SAA
Local storm report, Apr 18, 12:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 18, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 18, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 18, 2:40 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 7:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware53 min
Apr 17, 8:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware33 min
Apr 17, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPawnee43 min
Apr 17, 9:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Osage, Washington52 min
Apr 17, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa51 min
Apr 17, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington55 min
Apr 17, 10:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig, Nowata44 min
Apr 17, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa60 min
Apr 17, 11:12 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee33 min
Apr 17, 11:44 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner31 min
Apr 17, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner52 min
Apr 18, 12:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACreek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more4 hr
Apr 18, 12:17 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAMayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner28 min
Apr 18, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 2 more67 min
Apr 18, 12:46 AM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware, Mayes29 min
Apr 18, 1:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Ottawa and 2 more4 hr
Apr 18, 1:16 AM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware, Mayes, Ottawa44 min
Apr 18, 1:53 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware37 min
Apr 18, 2:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Delaware56 min
Apr 18, 2:39 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware51 min
Apr 18, 2:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner44 min
Apr 18, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner64 min
Apr 18, 3:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa4 hr
Apr 18, 4:28 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningTSACreek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner14 hr
Apr 18, 4:55 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningTSACherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Wagoner14 hr
Apr 18, 7:15 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware12 hr
Apr 18, 8:23 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTSACherokee, Delaware8 hr
Apr 18, 8:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTSAOkmulgee4 days
Apr 18, 9:08 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTSACherokee48 hr
Apr 18, 11:58 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningTSAAdair30 hr
Apr 18, 6:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington30 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013

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.