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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2016, 11:18 AM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 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
- Apr 26, 2016, 11:18 AM CDT (16:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2016, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Creek County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Apr 26, 10:38 AM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 10:38 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:18 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1118 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 OKZ064-065-261715- OKFUSKEE OK-CREEK OK- 1118 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN OKFUSKEE AND CREEK COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 PM CDT... AT 1117 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER AVERY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... BRISTOW... DRUMRIGHT... OILTON... DEPEW... SLICK... SHAMROCK... MILFAY... SILVER CITY... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 178 AND 199. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3615 9662 3616 9639 3573 9620 3559 9662 TIME...MOT...LOC 1617Z 235DEG 19KT 3588 9673 69
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 12:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 1:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.