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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 27, 2016Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2016, 3:41 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 19 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 27, 2016, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 733 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 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 27, 12:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 12:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 12:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:36 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
336 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016

OKZ075-272100-
LATIMER OK-
336 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LATIMER COUNTY UNTIL
400 PM CDT...

AT 336 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RED OAK. THIS
STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
RED OAK...                        BENGAL...
PANOLA...

LAT...LON 3484 9523 3506 9523 3506 9493 3494 9493
      3494 9500 3485 9500 3485 9506 3483 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 030DEG 1KT 3496 9504

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
341 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016

OKZ070-071-272100-
MUSKOGEE OK-MCINTOSH OK-
341 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN MCINTOSH AND
SOUTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 341 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WARNER. THIS
STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
WARNER...                         PORUM...
WEBBERS FALLS...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 IN OKLAHOMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 267 AND
283.

LAT...LON 3559 9539 3550 9517 3533 9529 3542 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 030DEG 1KT 3547 9533

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 6:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	3 hr
Jul 27, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	24 min
Jul 27, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	31 min
Jul 27, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	24 min
Jul 27, 6:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Carroll, Madison	3 hr
Jul 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Benton	110 min

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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.