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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 16, 2015Haskell County, Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Nov 16, 2015, 9:31 PM CST for Haskell County, Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. 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: Nov 16, 2015, 9:31 PM CST (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2015, 10:15 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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 Nov 16, 9:07 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 9:07 PM CST, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 16, 4:56 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 16, 9:31 PM CST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
931 PM CST MON NOV 16 2015

OKZ073>075-170415-
PITTSBURG OK-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
931 PM CST MON NOV 16 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL PITTSBURG...LATIMER AND
HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM CST...

AT 930 PM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF BLANCO TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF HARTSHORNE
TO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAMON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
MCALESTER...                      WILBURTON...
STIGLER...                        HARTSHORNE...
KREBS...                          QUINTON...
KEOTA...                          RED OAK...
MCCURTAIN...                      CROWDER...
WHITEFIELD...                     ALDERSON...
KINTA...                          CANADIAN...
TAMAHA...                         BLANCO...
ARROWHEAD STATE PARK...           HIGGINS...
BLOCKER...                        ROBBERS CAVE STATE PARK...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3467 9588 3525 9563 3525 9561 3522 9562
      3526 9551 3530 9550 3529 9546 3533 9540
      3526 9524 3543 9508 3537 9490 3535 9492
      3536 9484 3475 9511 3468 9533 3468 9551
      3462 9552 3460 9559 3460 9588
TIME...MOT...LOC 0330Z 203DEG 52KT 3466 9581 3472 9555 3482 9533

LACY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 16, 9:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	52 min
Nov 16, 10:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	40 min
Nov 17, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	34 min
Nov 17, 2:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	53 min
Nov 17, 2:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	45 min
Nov 17, 2:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	39 min
Nov 17, 3:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more	53 min
Nov 17, 3:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	64 min
Nov 17, 3:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	62 min
Nov 17, 4:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee, Wagoner	60 min
Nov 17, 4:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	40 min
Nov 17, 4:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	57 min
Nov 17, 4:49 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	56 min
Nov 17, 4:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	55 min
Nov 17, 5:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	67 min
Nov 17, 5:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	61 min
Nov 17, 5:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	64 min
Nov 17, 5:49 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee	41 min
Nov 17, 6:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Sequoyah	65 min
Nov 17, 6:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	61 min
Nov 17, 6:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	45 min
Nov 17, 7:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	14 min
Nov 17, 7:18 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	57 min
Nov 17, 1:25 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	47 hr
Nov 17, 12:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	43 min
Nov 17, 7:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton, Washington	64 min
Nov 17, 8:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Washington	66 min
Nov 17, 8:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	46 min
Nov 17, 8:35 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	115 min
Nov 17, 9:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Franklin, Madison	57 min
Nov 17, 9:41 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	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.