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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 8, 2015Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2015, 4:51 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 8, 2015, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Franklin County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 461 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 Jul 8, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 4:51 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
211 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2015

OKZ049-053-082000-
PUSHMATAHA OK-CHOCTAW OK-
211 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN PUSHMATAHA AND
CHOCTAW COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

AT 210 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST OF KELLOND TO
5 MILES NORTH OF BOSWELL TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOPER...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HUGO...ANTLERS...BOSWELL...FORT TOWSON...SAWYER...RATTAN...SOPER...
HUGO LAKE STATE PARK...MESSER...KENT...KOSOMA...SNOW...KELLOND...
MOYERS...RAYMOND GARY STATE PARK...GOODLAND...OLETA...GRANT...CORINNE
AND DELA.

LAT...LON 3388 9554 3393 9556 3394 9560 3389 9569
      3390 9575 3387 9580 3405 9590 3415 9585
      3416 9578 3431 9578 3449 9548 3431 9531
      3406 9516 3394 9516 3396 9523 3389 9526
      3390 9526 3391 9527 3387 9529
TIME...MOT...LOC 1910Z 232DEG 37KT 3427 9573 3410 9584 3394 9574

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
222 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2015

ARZ019-020-029-082000-
CRAWFORD AR-SEBASTIAN AR-FRANKLIN AR-
222 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD...CENTRAL
SEBASTIAN AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

AT 222 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF DYER
TO NEAR LAVACA TO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUNTINGTON...AND MOVING EAST
AT 45 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OZARK...CHARLESTON...GREENWOOD...ALMA...LAVACA...MULBERRY...
MANSFIELD...DYER...ALTUS...HARTFORD...HUNTINGTON...BRANCH...
MIDLAND...DENNING...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...WASHBURN...BURNVILLE...
CASS...FORT CHAFFEE AND FERN.

LAT...LON 3538 9371 3537 9375 3542 9380 3531 9381
      3532 9392 3523 9392 3523 9403 3514 9403
      3514 9414 3510 9414 3506 9425 3506 9423
      3502 9423 3502 9441 3529 9424 3558 9424
      3574 9370
TIME...MOT...LOC 1922Z 262DEG 39KT 3552 9417 3531 9417 3510 9430

Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:10 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:51 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 7:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	63 hr
Jul 7, 8:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	37 hr
Jul 7, 8:57 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Muskogee	36 hr
Jul 7, 9:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	30 hr
Jul 7, 9:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 2 more	12 hr
Jul 8, 12:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage and 6 more	3 hr
Jul 8, 1:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	8 hr
Jul 8, 1:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Creek, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee and 4 more	3 hr
Jul 8, 6:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	7 hr
Jul 8, 6:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	3 hr
Jul 8, 6:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pittsburg	3 hr
Jul 8, 7:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	6 hr
Jul 8, 9:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okmulgee	4 hr
Jul 8, 9:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	3 hr
Jul 8, 12:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
Jul 8, 12:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	39 min
Jul 8, 1:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	18 hr
Jul 8, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
Jul 8, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	48 min
Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	49 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	65 min
Jul 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	47 min
Jul 8, 4:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	112 min
Jul 7, 9:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	69 hr
Jul 7, 9:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin, Johnson, Logan	3 days
Jul 8, 11:08 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Franklin, Johnson, Logan	47 hr
Jul 8, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	41 min
Jul 8, 2:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	38 min
Jul 8, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	35 min
Jul 8, 5:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	3 hr

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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.