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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 8, 2014, 4:40 AM CDT for Adair County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 8, 2014, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2014, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Adair County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Oct 8, 4:01 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 4:01 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 401 AM CDT WED OCT 8 2014 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS RECENTLY DEVELOPED ALONG THE ELEVATED FRONTAL ZONE AND IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE MID MORNING HOURS WHILE GRADUALLY SHIFTING EASTWARD. TEMPS WILL CONTINUE WELL ABOVE NORMAL AS THE SFC BOUNDARY LIFTS NORTHWARD AND FOCUSES CONVECTION NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. THE SFC BOUNDARY AND/OR CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW WILL PUSH NEAR THE OK/KS BORDER ON THURSDAY...WITH CONVECTION EXPANDING NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY AND EXPANDING FURTHER SOUTH INTO THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT. FORCING ALOFT WILL ALSO BE INCREASING AHEAD OF AN UPPER WAVE THAT WILL INTERACT WITH THE SFC BOUNDARY WHILE TAPPING AN AXIS OF DEEPER MOISTURE. THE RESULT WILL BE WIDESPREAD PRECIP THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST ON SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH COOLER DURING THIS TIMEFRAME. DATA HAVE COME INTO FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON ANOTHER UPPER WAVE FOLLOWING QUICKLY BEHIND THE LATE WEEK SYSTEM. WHILE THIS IS A RECENT CONVERGENCE IN MODEL SOLUTIONS...IT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED IN SOME WAY FOR SEVERAL DAYS BY THE ECMWF/UKMET THUS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT THE SCENARIO PANS OUT. THE RESULT WOULD BE ANOTHER ROUND OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...WITH RIDGING ALOFT BUILDING INTO THE REGION AND WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS RETURNING THEREAFTER. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 89 68 87 64 / 10 10 20 60 FSM 88 67 87 66 / 20 10 20 50 MLC 89 67 86 69 / 10 10 10 40 BVO 87 62 86 60 / 10 20 30 70 FYV 85 60 84 63 / 20 10 30 50 BYV 84 62 83 63 / 20 20 30 60 MKO 87 65 87 65 / 10 10 20 50 MIO 85 64 85 61 / 10 20 50 60 F10 89 65 87 66 / 10 10 20 50 HHW 88 67 87 68 / 10 10 10 20 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && LONG TERM....07
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 7, 4:55 PM CDT, 11 hours 45 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 8, 4:40 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
440 AM CDT WED OCT 8 2014
ARZ010-019-OKZ069-081015-
ADAIR OK-CRAWFORD AR-WASHINGTON AR-
440 AM CDT WED OCT 8 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD AND SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN ADAIR
AT 440 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF STILWELL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...STILWELL AND ODELL.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. RESIDENTS
IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3563 9444 3572 9476 3584 9473 3581 9435
TIME...MOT...LOC 0940Z 284DEG 15KT 3575 9465The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 47 min |
| Oct 8, 5:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 24 min |
| Oct 8, 6:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 30 min |
| Oct 8, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 38 min |
| Oct 8, 6:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Johnson | 34 min |
| Oct 8, 6:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 23 min |
| Oct 8, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 30 min |
| Oct 8, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 22 min |
| Oct 8, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 45 min |
| Oct 8, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 44 min |
| Oct 8, 7:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 24 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.