Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2015, 4:05 PM CDT for Adair County, Cherokee County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2015, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2015, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Mayes County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 3:11 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:11 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 311 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2015 .DISCUSSION... A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY...PRIMARILY A WIND-SHIFT LINE...WAS NOTED ACROSS NE OK EXTENDING INTO WRN OK. SCATTERED CONVECTION CONTINUES TO BUBBLE ACROSS SRN KS INTO NRN OK...AND THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY INCREASE IN INTENSITY/COVERAGE AS IT ENCOUNTERS AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE (SURFACE-BASED CAPES 3500-4000 J/KG) ACROSS NE OK INTO NW AR. THE HIGH INSTABILITY AND DEEP MOISTURE CONTENT SUGGESTS THAT A FEW STRONG DOWNBURSTS MAY OCCUR WITH CONVECTION ALONG/NEAR THE WEAK FRONT INTO THE EVENING HOURS...WITH THE ACTIVITY GRADUALLY SINKING SWD AND WEAKENING AFTER SUNSET. THE FOCUS FOR MORE CONCENTRATED CONVECTION SHOULD SHIFT A LITTLE FARTHER S INTO SE OK AND WRN AR FOR FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH SOME INTENSIFICATION LIKELY INTO THE AFTERNOON AS ANOTHER UPPER WAVE SWINGS THROUGH IN THE NWLY FLOW ALOFT. A RETREATING SURFACE BOUNDARY ALONG WITH THE PERSISTENT NWLY FLOW WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF SHOWERS/STORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. GIVEN THE HIGH FORECAST PRECIP-WATER VALUES (AROUND 2 INCHES)...AREAS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLOODING WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL CONCERN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THERE MAY BE A BRIEF BREAK FROM THE PRECIPITATION LATER SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...ALTHOUGH LONG RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT BRINGING ANOTHER WEAK FRONT AND INCREASING SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INTO THE AREA FOR TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 72 88 69 89 / 60 60 50 30 FSM 74 86 70 88 / 70 70 60 40 MLC 73 84 69 87 / 70 60 60 50 BVO 68 87 66 89 / 40 50 40 20 FYV 69 83 64 84 / 60 70 50 30 BYV 68 81 64 83 / 60 60 50 30 MKO 71 84 69 87 / 60 70 50 30 MIO 68 86 67 89 / 40 60 40 20 F10 72 84 69 87 / 70 60 50 40 HHW 73 83 70 87 / 60 70 60 60 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...69 LONG TERM....18
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 12:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:54 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 354 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2015 OKZ068-022145- CHEROKEE OK- 354 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 354 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PEGGS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SCRAPER...ELDON AND PEGGS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. LAT...LON 3603 9512 3615 9511 3615 9481 3588 9482 TIME...MOT...LOC 2054Z 291DEG 14KT 3611 9507 69
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 6:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa and 1 more | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 6:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton, Washington | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 60 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.