Alert archive / Oklahoma / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2016, 3:58 PM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 31, 2016, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</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 Aug 30, 6:36 PM CDT, 21 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 6:36 PM CDT, 21 hours 22 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 4:54 PM CDT, 23 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 454 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-311030- 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- 454 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2016 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RISK...ELEVATED NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ADDITIONAL AREA...ISOLATED SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE INTO THE EVENING HOURS AND BE CAPABLE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BRIEFLY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...HOWEVER ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THE STORMS WILL BEGIN TO DISSIPATE BY LATE EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF SURFACE HEATING. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR STORMS THIS WEEK WILL BE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT. THE GREATER THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WEDNESDAY WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF I-40...THEN SLIDING SOUTH OF I-40 ON THURSDAY. THE SEVERE RISK SHOULD REMAIN LOW. DRIER AIR WILL WORK ITS WAY INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE WEEKEND...ENDING STORM CHANCES. WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 12:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Craig | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 8:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 25 min |
| Aug 31, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 26 min |
| Aug 31, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 30 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 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.