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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2015, 5:02 AM CDT for Delaware County, Oklahoma; Benton County, Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 23, 2015, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2015, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Delaware County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1914 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Aug 23, 2:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 500 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-241000- 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- 500 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...FAR EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. FLASH FLOOD. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS MORNING. HEAVY RAIN. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS MORNING. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...FAR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. DISCUSSION... A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX ACROSS PARTS OF FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK SOUTHEAST...MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THERE MAY BE SOME STRONG TO SEVERE WIND GUSTS ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY AS IT TRACKS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. WINDS GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE FARTHER WEST INTO PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY WEAKEN BY MID MORNING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA DURING THE AFTERNOON AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE A CONCERN EARLY THIS MORNING FOR FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NORTH OF THE FRONT TONIGHT ALTHOUGH THIS ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDS. THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... A PERIOD OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES IS EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK...WITH SMALL CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURNING LATE IN THE WEEK. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:03 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 23, 4:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 4:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 4:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 6:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Aug 23, 6:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 7:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 7:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 8:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 8:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 10:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 5:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 49 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2015Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2015Every special weather statement in 2015
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.