Alert archive / Oklahoma / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2016, 8:15 AM CDT for Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 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
- Oct 6, 2016, 8:15 AM CDT (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 914 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted.
511
WWUS84 KTSA 061315
SPSTSA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
815 AM CDT THU OCT 6 2016
OKZ054>056-061400-
NOWATA OK-WASHINGTON OK-OSAGE OK-
815 AM CDT THU OCT 6 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL OSAGE...WEST CENTRAL
NOWATA AND CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT...
AT 815 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF
WYNONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
BARTLESVILLE... DEWEY...
BARNSDALL... COPAN...
WYNONA... OCHELATA...
WANN... OKESA...
WOLCO... TALLANT...
PERSHING... NELAGONEY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3682 9562 3636 9630 3649 9645 3700 9586
3700 9584
TIME...MOT...LOC 1315Z 226DEG 43KT 3649 9631
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 67 min |
| Oct 6, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 2:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 48 min |
| Oct 6, 4:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Oct 6, 4:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 5:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Washington | 38 min |
| Oct 6, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 52 min |
| Oct 6, 8:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 5 days |
| Oct 6, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 41 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 31 min |
| Oct 6, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Nowata, Pawnee, Washington | 13 hr |
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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.