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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 12, 2016Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2016, 8:02 AM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 12, 2016, 8:02 AM CDT (13:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2016, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 12, 6:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:02 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
802 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

OKZ049-073-121330-
PUSHMATAHA OK-PITTSBURG OK-
802 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN PITTSBURG AND
CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES UNTIL 830 AM CDT...

AT 802 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF KIOWA TO CLOUDY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT
15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
MCALESTER...                      CLAYTON...
KIOWA...                          SAVANNA...
ASHLAND...                        BLANCO...
SNOW...                           HAYWOOD...
CLOUDY...                         DUNBAR...
STANLEY...                        NASHOBA...
CLAYTON LAKE STATE PARK...        PITTSBURG...
SARDIS...                         ARPELAR...
EUBANKS...                        FINLEY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3447 9578 3451 9577 3451 9567 3459 9567
      3459 9588 3468 9589 3468 9609 3505 9609
      3473 9551 3468 9551 3468 9543 3446 9504
      3425 9505 3424 9515 3416 9515 3416 9520
TIME...MOT...LOC 1302Z 249DEG 14KT 3474 9596 3430 9529

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	48 min
Jun 12, 8:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	5 hr
Jun 12, 11:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	24 min
Jun 12, 12:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	37 min
Jun 12, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	46 min
Jun 12, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	35 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Choctaw	3 hr
Jun 12, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	37 min
Jun 12, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton, Washington	46 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.