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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 7, 20166 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 7, 2016, 9:32 PM CST for 6 counties in Oklahoma. 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: Mar 7, 2016, 9:32 PM CST (03:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2016, 10:15 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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: 258 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 7.7

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The text

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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 Mar 7, 9:04 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 9:04 PM CST, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 7, 5:00 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 7, 9:32 PM CST, 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
Mar 7, 10:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	48 min
Mar 7, 10:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers and 3 more	21 min
Mar 7, 11:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington	40 min
Mar 8, 12:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	40 min
Mar 8, 7:48 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair	36 hr
Mar 8, 7:53 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee	36 hr
Mar 8, 9:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	3 days
Mar 8, 10:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	46 min
Mar 8, 11:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	39 min
Mar 8, 11:08 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	52 min
Mar 8, 11:43 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	2 hr
Mar 8, 1:10 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	54 hr
Mar 8, 1:10 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	4 days
Mar 8, 1:42 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	52 hr
Mar 8, 2:11 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Pushmataha	44 hr
Mar 8, 9:13 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	51 hr
Mar 8, 2:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	38 min

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.