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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2016, 1:01 PM CDT for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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
- May 24, 2016, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Crawford County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 May 24, 12:28 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 12:28 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1245 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-251000- 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- 1245 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. TORNADO. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. DISCUSSION... AN UNSTABLE AND WEAKLY CAPPED AIR-MASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA TODAY. SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON IN ASSOCIATION WITH A WEAK MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AS AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. THESE STORMS WILL POSE A THREAT FOR VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH A LIMITED TORNADO THREAT NEAR THE BOUNDARY. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE WELL TO OUR WEST THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT APPEARS LIMITED. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK LIKELY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... DAILY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND. INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN HIGH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...SUPPORTING PERIODIC CHANCES FOR AT LEAST ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER...THE FOCUS FOR MORE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN WEST AND NORTH OF THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY. A STRONGER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY...RAISING THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 11:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1117 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016 OKZ058-241645- OTTAWA OK- 1117 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL OTTAWA COUNTY UNTIL 1145 AM CDT... AT 1117 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES SOUTH OF LOMA LINDA TO NEAR WYANDOTTE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... WYANDOTTE... PEORIA... TWIN BRIDGES STATE PARK... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 NEAR MILE MARKER 323. LAT...LON 3683 9462 3676 9480 3698 9464 3699 9462 TIME...MOT...LOC 1617Z 236DEG 35KT 3694 9461 3681 9472
Special weather statement, May 24, 1:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 35 min |
| May 23, 8:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 33 min |
| May 24, 11:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 28 min |
| May 24, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 38 min |
| May 24, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 37 min |
| May 24, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 65 min |
| May 24, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 46 min |
| May 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 29 min |
| May 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 62 min |
| May 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 24 min |
| May 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 13 min |
| May 24, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 53 min |
| May 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 44 min |
| May 24, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 52 min |
| May 24, 1:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 35 min |
| May 24, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 49 min |
| May 24, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 37 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.