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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 31, 2013Osage County, Pawnee County, Washington County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2013, 3:43 AM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
Mar 31, 2013, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2013, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK

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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 Mar 31, 12:04 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:04 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1204 AM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013

.AVIATION...
CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KBVO/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM.
SCT CONVECTION WILL BE CLEARING THE AR TAF SITES EARLY IN THE PERIOD
...WITH ADDITIONAL CONVECTION POSSIBLE ACROSS KMLC IN THE 11Z-15Z
TIME FRAME AS THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES. CIGS ANTICIPATED TO
REMAIN VFR...WITH BRIEF MVFR VSBYS IN THUNDER AT KMLC WITHIN THE
AFOREMENTIONED PERIOD. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT ALL SITES FROM 15Z
THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1018 PM CDT SAT MAR 30 2013/

DISCUSSION...
UPDATED ZONES SENT EARLIER REFLECT ADJUSTMENTS TO POPS BASED ON
THE LATEST TRENDS...WHICH IS KEEPING THE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE
ERN ZONES. FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH THROUGH THE AREA WITH
SCATTERED STRONG/SEVERE STORMS TO CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT.ADDITIONAL
ACTIVITY NOTED ACROSS WRN KS AT THIS TIME....AND WILL LIKELY
IMPACT NE OK LATER TONIGHT. HOWEVER...DO NOT THINK SEVERE
POTENTIAL WILL BE SIGNIFICANT WITH THAT ACTIVITY.

UPDATED ZFP/PFM/AFM ALREADY SENT.

CONVECTIVE WATCH #69 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM.

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.
&&

AVIATION...23
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 1:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 31, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 3:27 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 3:43 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 7:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa32 min
Mar 30, 7:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkfuskee35 min
Mar 30, 7:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWagoner34 min
Mar 30, 7:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMayes25 min
Mar 30, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Rogers, Wagoner63 min
Mar 30, 8:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSANowata29 min
Mar 30, 8:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSARogers36 min
Mar 30, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Mayes, Rogers52 min
Mar 30, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner60 min
Mar 30, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa, Rogers67 min
Mar 30, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner35 min
Mar 30, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa56 min
Mar 30, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware, Mayes, Rogers54 min
Mar 30, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner59 min
Mar 30, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg57 min
Mar 30, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes56 min
Mar 30, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah66 min
Mar 30, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg44 min
Mar 30, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah64 min
Mar 30, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah67 min
Mar 30, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Sequoyah41 min
Mar 30, 11:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPushmataha37 min
Mar 30, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg, Pushmataha67 min
Mar 30, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah62 min
Mar 31, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore67 min
Mar 31, 3:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOsage63 min
Mar 31, 4:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig, Creek, Nowata, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more55 min
Mar 31, 5:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware, Mayes, Tulsa, Wagoner47 min
Mar 31, 5:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer, Pittsburg43 min
Mar 31, 5:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore31 min
Mar 31, 5:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer, Pittsburg47 min
Mar 31, 6:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw40 min
Mar 31, 6:42 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPushmataha63 min
Mar 31, 7:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw59 min
Mar 30, 9:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll33 min
Mar 30, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Carroll, Madison56 min
Mar 30, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACarroll, Madison32 min
Mar 31, 12:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASebastian29 min
Mar 31, 6:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll, Madison, Washington60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.