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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 5, 2016McIntosh County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT for McIntosh County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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: Oct 5, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2016, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County McIntosh County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1817 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 14.8

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The text

As transmitted.

016 
WUUS54 KTSA 050700
SVRTSA
OKC091-050730-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0239.161005T0700Z-161005T0730Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
200 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 159 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF RAIFORD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
  EUFAULA...                        STIDHAM...
  VIVIAN...                         RAIFORD...
  LAKE EUFAULA STATE PARK...        PIERCE...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 IN OKLAHOMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 244 AND
257.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3538 9588 3544 9588 3552 9567 3525 9558
      3525 9595 3538 9598
TIME...MOT...LOC 0659Z 254DEG 27KT 3533 9587 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

1 follow-up statement

615 
WWUS54 KTSA 050713
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
213 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2016

OKC091-050730-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0239.000000T0000Z-161005T0730Z/
MCINTOSH OK-
213 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY...

AT 213 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF
STIDHAM...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
EUFAULA...                        STIDHAM...
VIVIAN...                         RAIFORD...
LAKE EUFAULA STATE PARK...        PIERCE...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 IN OKLAHOMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 244 AND
257.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3538 9588 3544 9588 3552 9567 3525 9558
      3525 9595
TIME...MOT...LOC 0713Z 249DEG 25KT 3537 9577 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	39 min
Oct 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	34 min
Oct 4, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	47 min
Oct 4, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	45 min
Oct 4, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	64 min
Oct 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	60 min
Oct 4, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	59 min
Oct 4, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	44 min
Oct 4, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	56 min
Oct 5, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	47 min
Oct 5, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	33 min
Oct 5, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	25 min
Oct 5, 12:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	35 min
Oct 5, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	34 min
Oct 5, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	32 min
Oct 5, 1:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	48 min
Oct 5, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	48 min
Oct 5, 2:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Muskogee, Sequoyah	45 min
Oct 5, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	47 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.