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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 1, 2016Mayes County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2016, 6:27 PM CDT for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 1, 2016, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Mayes County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 Jul 1, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 5:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
314 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2016

ARZ010-012100-
WASHINGTON AR-
314 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY UNTIL
400 PM CDT...

AT 313 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF TONTITOWN TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FARMINGTON TO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CINCINNATI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT
10 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
FAYETTEVILLE...                   SPRINGDALE...
FARMINGTON...                     PRAIRIE GROVE...
ELKINS...                         TONTITOWN...
GREENLAND...                      CINCINNATI...
JOHNSON...                        ELM SPRINGS...
GOSHEN...                         OAK GROVE...
VINEY GROVE...                    SONORA...
SAVOY...                          WEDINGTON...
PRAIRIE GROVE BATTLEFIELD STATE...
HARMON...
SHADY GROVE...                    WALNUT GROVE...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 49 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 57 AND 74.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3600 9401 3597 9450 3610 9453 3610 9439
      3614 9439 3614 9434 3618 9433 3621 9425
      3621 9401 3620 9396
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 290DEG 8KT 3620 9419 3609 9430 3605 9446

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 4:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:27 PM CDT, 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
Jun 30, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	45 min
Jun 30, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington	24 min
Jun 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	34 min
Jun 30, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	13 min
Jun 30, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	33 min
Jul 1, 6:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pawnee	3 hr
Jul 1, 7:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pawnee	4 hr
Jul 1, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	25 min
Jul 1, 5:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	3 hr
Jun 30, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	30 min
Jun 30, 11:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	25 min
Jul 1, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	34 min
Jul 1, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	32 min
Jul 1, 2:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	46 min
Jul 1, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	37 min
Jul 1, 4:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Madison, Washington	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	36 min
Jul 1, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	26 min
Jul 1, 5:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Franklin	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2016 Every 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.