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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 25, 2015LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2015, 11:46 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2015, 11:46 PM CDT (04:46 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2015, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 1928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 16.1

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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 Mar 25, 8:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
844 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

.DISCUSSION...
COLD FRONT NOW NEAR A KFYV TO KSNL LINE WITH THE BULK OF THE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OCCURRING ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT ACROSS
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SEVERE THREAT WILL
CONTINUE FOR THE FEW HOURS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL ALSO CONTINUE FOR
THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS STORMS AND RAIN CONTINUE TO TRAIN OVER
THE SAME AREAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT THE AREA LATE
TONIGHT AS THE UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA.

HAVE TRIMMED SOME NORTHERN COUNTIES FROM THE WATCH AND MAY CLEAR SOME
MORE COUNTIES BEFORE THE WATCH EXPIRES.

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 AM THURSDAY FOR OKZ056-OKZ057-OKZ058-
     OKZ060-OKZ061-OKZ062-OKZ063-OKZ066-OKZ067-OKZ068-OKZ069-
     OKZ070-OKZ071.

AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 AM THURSDAY FOR ARZ001-ARZ002-ARZ010-
     ARZ011.

&&

SHORT TERM...10

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 11:37 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1137 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-261030-
ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK-
CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK-
OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK-
PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-
WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR-
1137 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
TORNADO.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA....SOUTH OF A LINE FROM KIOWA OK TO HEAVENER OK
	ONSET....ONGOING... ENDING BY 3AM

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...CRITICAL.
	AREA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MCALESTER TO FORT SMITH TO OZARK.
	ONSET...ONGOING... ENDING BY 3AM.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MCALESTER TO FORT SMITH TO OZARK.
	ONSET...ONGOING... ENDING BY 3AM.

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK... .

SIGNIFICANT WINDS.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS THE ENTIRE BAND OF STORMS
SHIFTS SOUTHEAST.  THE STRONGER WILL OCCASIONALLY BE AT SEVERE LEVELS
WITH HEAVY RAINS ALONG WITH WIND AND HAIL POTENTIAL.  THE GREATEST
THREAT WILL BE HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE. THERE IS ONLY A VERY SMALL RISK
OF AN ISOLATED TORNADO.

WINDS GUSTING BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WILL SPREAD IN BEHIND THE FRONT
TONIGHT ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

PAST HEAVY RAINS HAVE RESULTED IN SOME FLOODING. SEE THE FLOOD WARNINGS
FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION.

THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WILL EXIT OUR FORECAST AREA AROUND OR BEFORE
3AM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
THURSDAY...HIGH WIND POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS.
SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS.
SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN TO THE AREA LATE IN THE COMING
WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1030 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1025 PM     HAIL             FORT SMITH              35.39N 94.40W
03/25/2015  E1.00 INCH       SEBASTIAN          AR   PUBLIC

1025 PM     TSTM WND GST     FORT SMITH              35.39N 94.40W
03/25/2015  E65.00 MPH       SEBASTIAN          AR   PUBLIC

1028 PM     HAIL             MCALESTER               34.93N 95.77W
03/25/2015  E1.75 INCH       PITTSBURG          OK   BROADCAST MEDIA

            NORTH SIDE OF TOWN.

&&

CAS

Local storm report, Mar 25, 10:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1032 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1029 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 S FORT SMITH          35.31N 94.40W
03/25/2015  M72.00 MPH       SEBASTIAN          AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SOUTH OF FORT SMITH ON US HIGHWAY 71.

&&

CAS

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 10:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1038 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

OKZ073-260400-
PITTSBURG OK-
1038 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     CENTRAL PITTSBURG

AT 1039 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF HAYWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...MCALESTER...BLANCO...SAVANNA...
HAYWOOD...ALDERSON...KREBS...ARPELAR AND MCALESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3507 9573 3477 9561 3472 9604 3487 9610
      3493 9609
TIME...MOT...LOC 0339Z 254DEG 35KT 3484 9596

Local storm report, Mar 25, 10:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1042 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0850 PM     TSTM WND DMG     FAYETTEVILLE            36.06N 94.16W
03/25/2015                   WASHINGTON         AR   BROADCAST MEDIA

            TREE DOWN ON CAR ON SOUTH STREET.

&&

CAS

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:24 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1124 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

OKZ049-074>076-260500-
HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-LE FLORE OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-
1124 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

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

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL...CENTRAL LE FLORE...NORTHEASTERN
     PUSHMATAHA AND EASTERN LATIMER

AT 1124 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF MCCURTAIN TO 3 MILES SOUTH OF
TALIHINA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...MCCURTAIN...STIGLER...LEQUIRE...
KEOTA...KANIMA...BENGAL...RED OAK...POTEAU...MUSE...WHITESBORO...
TALIHINA...SUMMERFIELD...FANSHAWE...HOWE...WISTER...SHADY POINT...
MILTON...PANAMA...BOKOSHE...SPIRO...KIAMICHI...ALBION...TALIMENA
STATE PARK AND LAKE WISTER STATE PARK.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3527 9459 3462 9467 3461 9524 3529 9516
TIME...MOT...LOC 0424Z 270DEG 33KT 3520 9497 3471 9505

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1146 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

ARZ029-OKZ049-076-260530-
LE FLORE OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-SEBASTIAN AR-
1146 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
     SOUTHWESTERN SEBASTIAN

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     LE FLORE AND NORTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA

AT 1146 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COWLINGTON TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF
WISTER TO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3459 9498 3494 9481 3531 9480 3531 9468
      3529 9466 3531 9462 3529 9423 3507 9420
      3507 9423 3497 9422 3495 9429 3494 9435
      3495 9436 3492 9444 3458 9445
TIME...MOT...LOC 0446Z 270DEG 33KT 3522 9469 3493 9470
          3467 9483

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	42 min
Mar 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	40 min
Mar 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	4 hr
Mar 25, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	23 min
Mar 25, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	48 min
Mar 25, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	43 min
Mar 25, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner	4 hr
Mar 25, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	25 min
Mar 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner	50 min
Mar 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	32 min
Mar 25, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	41 min
Mar 25, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	52 min
Mar 25, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	42 min
Mar 25, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner	43 min
Mar 25, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee	48 min
Mar 25, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Pittsburg	46 min
Mar 25, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah	44 min
Mar 25, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	28 min
Mar 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	52 min
Mar 25, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	39 min
Mar 25, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	42 min
Mar 25, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	66 min
Mar 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more	6 hr
Mar 25, 10:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	22 min
Mar 25, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	38 min
Mar 25, 11:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	4 hr
Mar 25, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	36 min
Mar 25, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	46 min
Mar 26, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	41 min
Mar 26, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	46 min
Mar 26, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	30 min
Mar 26, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	27 min
Mar 26, 8:43 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee	52 hr
Mar 26, 4:04 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	5 hr
Mar 25, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton, Carroll	40 min
Mar 25, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	28 min
Mar 25, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	38 min
Mar 25, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	56 min
Mar 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	4 hr
Mar 25, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton, Washington	116 min
Mar 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	35 min
Mar 25, 10:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll	4 hr
Mar 26, 2:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll	4 hr

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.