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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 12, 2014Creek County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2014, 11:50 PM CDT for Creek County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 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 12, 2014, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2014, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Creek County, OK, Pawnee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -430 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 337 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 Oct 12, 8:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 8:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 5:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 12, 11:50 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1150 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014

OKZ054-059-064-065-130545-
CREEK OK-OKFUSKEE OK-OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-
1150 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     WESTERN CREEK...WESTERN OSAGE AND PAWNEE

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
     NORTHWESTERN OKFUSKEE

AT 1150 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 31 MILES WEST OF PAWNEE TO 37 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MILFAY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...MASON...WELTY...OSAGE...FAIRFAX...
BURBANK...PAWNEE...JENNINGS...TERLTON...HALLETT...MARAMEC...
BLACKBURN...SKEDEE...CLEVELAND...RALSTON...BRISTOW...MILFAY...
DEPEW...SHAMROCK...DRUMRIGHT...OILTON...SILVER CITY...MANNFORD AND
QUAY.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO
50 MPH.

LAT...LON 3680 9650 3555 9623 3552 9663 3615 9663
      3615 9682 3624 9682 3624 9692 3633 9693
      3633 9704 3651 9704 3656 9691 3658 9690
      3659 9692 3658 9700 3659 9705 3665 9707
TIME...MOT...LOC 0450Z 253DEG 29KT 3650 9728 3554 9712

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	61 min
Oct 13, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	42 min
Oct 13, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	38 min
Oct 13, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	34 min
Oct 13, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	30 min
Oct 13, 1:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	23 min
Oct 13, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	24 min
Oct 13, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	27 min
Oct 13, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	32 min
Oct 13, 2:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	23 min
Oct 13, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	43 min
Oct 13, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	25 min
Oct 13, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, Pushmataha	42 min
Oct 13, 3:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
Oct 13, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	23 min
Oct 13, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	32 min
Oct 13, 4:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	28 min
Oct 13, 8:28 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 6 more	13 hr
Oct 13, 12:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	45 hr
Oct 13, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Washington	45 min
Oct 13, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Madison, Washington	40 min
Oct 13, 4:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	65 min
Oct 13, 5:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	38 min
Oct 13, 5:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	17 min

Nearby

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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.