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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 10, 2014LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 10, 2014, 4:49 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 10, 2014, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 10, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 1:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1216 PM CDT THU JUL 10 2014

ARZ020-029-101815-
FRANKLIN AR-SEBASTIAN AR-
1216 PM CDT THU JUL 10 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
     SOUTHERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHEASTERN SEBASTIAN

AT 1216 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF VESTA TO BLOOMER TO BURNVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE
STORMS INCLUDE...ALIX...OZARK...CHARLESTON...BRANCH...URSULA...PETER
PENDER...VESTA...MEG...DENNING...CECIL...ALTUS...TONEY...WIEDERKEHR
VILLAGE...BURNVILLE...FORT CHAFFEE...BLOOMER AND ETNA.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

LAT...LON 3536 9372 3536 9375 3540 9380 3532 9381
      3532 9390 3523 9392 3523 9402 3517 9403
      3518 9420 3536 9417 3539 9414 3545 9415
      3545 9404 3552 9403 3555 9370 3538 9370
TIME...MOT...LOC 1716Z 264DEG 22KT 3547 9411 3531 9413
          3520 9417

Local storm report, Jul 10, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 10, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 10, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:04 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	46 min
Jul 10, 5:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	33 min
Jul 10, 6:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee, Washington	41 min
Jul 10, 8:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Tulsa	117 min
Jul 10, 12:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Osage, Tulsa, Washington	3 hr
Jul 10, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa, Washington	3 hr
Jul 10, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa, Washington	107 min
Jul 10, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	41 min
Jul 10, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	25 min
Jul 10, 5:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa, Washington	6 hr
Jul 10, 5:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	3 hr
Jul 10, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	42 min
Jul 10, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	47 min
Jul 10, 11:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	32 min
Jul 10, 11:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	25 min
Jul 10, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	46 min
Jul 10, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	59 min
Jul 10, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	32 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.