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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2016, 6:47 PM CDT for Muskogee 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
- Jul 28, 2016, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 28, 6:44 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 6:44 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 104 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2016 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-291000- 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- 104 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2016 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE GREATEST STORM COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONE OR TWO OF THESE STORMS MAY BREIFLY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS TO NEAR 60 MILES AN HOUR POSSIBLE. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP WELL TO OUR NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS STORM COMPLEX WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND ENTER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA LATE TONIGHT. THE COMPLEX WILL LIKELY BE ON A WEAKENING TREND BY THE TIME IT ARRIVES...BUT SOME POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR DAMAGING WINDS TO AROUND 60 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA LATE TONIGHT. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AS THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WEAKENS OVER THE REGION. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AND POSSIBLY SATURDAY NIGHT AS WELL AS UPPER LEVEL NORTHWESTERLY FLOW CONTINUES OVER THE PLAINS. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO BUILD BACK OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A RETURN OF HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 28, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
527 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0526 PM HAIL TULSA 36.13N 95.92W
07/28/2016 E1.00 INCH TULSA OK NWS EMPLOYEE
29TH AND PEORIA
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JDSLocal storm report, Jul 28, 6:12 PM CDT, 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 2:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Kay | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 37 min |
| Jul 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 31 min |
| Jul 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 24 min |
| Jul 28, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner | 37 min |
| Jul 28, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 37 min |
| Jul 28, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 34 min |
| Jul 28, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 34 min |
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Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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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.