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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Apr 9, 2015, 4:58 PM CDT for Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 9, 2015, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 950 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
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 Apr 9, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 227 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 .DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT IS QUICKLY SWEEPING EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON...IN ASSOCIATION WITH A PV MAX MOVING EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. A STRONG CAPPING INVERSION REMAINS IN PLACE AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND THUS FAR ECHOES HAVE STRUGGLED TO GET GOING. HOWEVER...EVENTUALLY LIFT AND HEATING SHOULD OVERCOME THE CAP AND AT LEAST SCATTERED STORMS WILL FIRE ALONG THE FRONT BY MID AFTERNOON FROM NW AR DOWN INTO SE OK. THE STORMS MAY EVENTUALLY BECOME MORE LINEAR WITH TIME. WINDS ALOFT AT THE BASE OF THE CENTRAL CONUS TROUGH SUGGEST SHEAR IS STRONG ENOUGH FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT INITIALLY AT LEAST. THE TORNADO THREAT...WHILE NOT ZERO...IS MUCH LESS COMPARED TO YESTERDAY...WITH VEERED FLOW IN THE WARM SECTOR SHRINKING HELICITY. THUS MAIN THREATS WILL BE HAIL/WINDS. ACTIVITY SHOULD BE CLEARING THE AREA BETWEEN 00Z AND 03Z...WITH A CLEAR AND COOL NIGHT FORTHCOMING. AFTER A NICE DAY TO BE OUTDOORS ON FRIDAY...RAIN/STORM CHANCES WILL RETURN BY SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY SATURDAY NIGHT AS THE RETREATING BOUNDARY LIFTS NORTH THRU THE PLAINS. A WAVE IN THE NORTHERN STREAM WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE MIDWEST BY THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND...FORCING ANOTHER BOUNDARY DOWN INTO OUR REGION. GOING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...AN UPPER WAVE IN THE WEAKER SOUTHERN STREAM OF THE WESTERLIES WILL LIFT INTO THE PLAINS...BRINGING GOOD CHANCES FOR RAIN/STORMS. A VIGOROUS UPPER STORM SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO DIVE IN FROM THE PAC NW AND CLOSE OFF OVER THE PLAINS LATE NEXT WEEK. DEPENDING ON HOW THE DETAILS SHAKE OUT...THERE WOULD BE SOME SEVERE POTENTIAL AHEAD OF THE ASSOCIATED FRONT...FOLLOWED BY SOME COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER TO CLOSE OUT THE WEEK. LACY && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 42 69 48 73 / 0 0 10 20 FSM 47 72 49 75 / 40 0 10 10 MLC 46 70 48 72 / 10 0 10 30 BVO 39 69 44 73 / 0 0 10 10 FYV 40 67 45 69 / 20 0 0 10 BYV 42 67 45 71 / 20 0 0 10 MKO 44 69 48 73 / 10 0 10 20 MIO 39 69 45 71 / 0 0 10 10 F10 45 69 49 72 / 0 0 10 20 HHW 49 71 48 71 / 40 0 10 30 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && LONG TERM....30
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 9, 12:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1251 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-101045- 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- 1251 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... 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...PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...1 TO 3 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...1 TO 3 PM. SIGNIFICANT WINDS. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON....A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NEAR VINITA TO OKMULGEE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS COLD FRONT BY MID-AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AS THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 65 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. THERE WILL ALSO BE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR FOR A LIMITED TORNADO THREAT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK LIKELY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... FRIDAY SHOULD BE A LITTLE COOLER AND DRY...ALTHOUGH THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY NIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH BETTER CHANCES EARLY NEXT WEEK AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:37 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
437 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015
OKZ074>076-092200-
HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-LE FLORE OK-
437 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL...NORTHERN LE FLORE AND NORTHEASTERN
LATIMER
AT 437 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF
KINTA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...MCCURTAIN...LEQUIRE...KINTA...KEOTA...MILTON
AND BOKOSHE.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH.
LAT...LON 3529 9476 3500 9473 3503 9527 3519 9526
TIME...MOT...LOC 2137Z 267DEG 37KT 3513 9513Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:38 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Apr 9, 4:41 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
441 PM CDT THU APR 09 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0425 PM HAIL N GOSHEN 36.10N 93.99W
04/09/2015 M1.00 INCH WASHINGTON AR PUBLIC
PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. TIME IS RADAR ESTIMATED.
&&
DMJSpecial weather statement, Apr 9, 4:43 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
443 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015
ARZ002-011-092215-
CARROLL AR-MADISON AR-
443 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
SOUTHERN CARROLL AND NORTHERN MADISON
AT 444 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF
WITHROW SPRINGS STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS
THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...HARMONY...OSAGE...
DRYFORK...METALTON...RUDD...CONNOR...CABANAL...RULE...FORUM...
MARBLE...ALABAM...CLIFTY...ROCKHOUSE AND WITHROW SPRINGS STATE PARK.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
LAT...LON 3638 9347 3614 9335 3609 9378 3623 9383
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 250DEG 36KT 3618 9377
LACYLocal storm report, Apr 9, 4:44 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
444 PM CDT THU APR 09 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0415 PM HAIL FAYETTEVILLE 36.06N 94.16W
04/09/2015 E0.75 INCH WASHINGTON AR AMATEUR RADIO
&&
AEJSpecial weather statement, Apr 9, 4:58 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
458 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015
OKZ072-074-076-092230-
HASKELL OK-LE FLORE OK-SEQUOYAH OK-
458 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
EASTERN HASKELL AND NORTHERN LE FLORE
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
SOUTHEASTERN SEQUOYAH
AT 457 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST
OF COWLINGTON...2 MILES EAST OF MCCURTAIN...AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF
MILTON...ALL MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...COTTONWOOD...MCCURTAIN...KEOTA...
GANS...MULDROW...ROLAND...MOFFETT...POTEAU...SHADY POINT...
CAMERON...MILTON...PANAMA...BOKOSHE...ROCK ISLAND...SPIRO...
POCOLA...SCULLYVILLE...BRADEN...COWLINGTON...ARKOMA AND JENSON.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3500 9445 3497 9489 3502 9493 3505 9493
3506 9495 3514 9501 3537 9490 3550 9445
3543 9444
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 259DEG 39KT 3531 9479 3516 9492
3502 9482The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 26 min |
| Apr 9, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Apr 9, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 50 min |
| Apr 9, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 23 min |
| Apr 9, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 35 min |
| Apr 9, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 27 min |
| Apr 9, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 35 min |
| Apr 9, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 15 min |
| Apr 9, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 22 min |
| Apr 9, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 26 min |
| Apr 9, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 14 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.