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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 12, 2016Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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 12, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 12, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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 Oct 12, 3:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 4:48 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 12, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
245 PM CDT WED OCT 12 2016

ARZ001-010-011-122015-
WASHINGTON AR-BENTON AR-MADISON AR-
245 PM CDT WED OCT 12 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MADISON...EAST
CENTRAL BENTON AND NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM
CDT...

AT 245 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF
SPRINGDALE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
FAYETTEVILLE...                   SPRINGDALE...
HUNTSVILLE...                     TONTITOWN...
BETHEL HEIGHTS...                 HINDSVILLE...
WAR EAGLE...                      HOBBS STATE PARK...
CLIFTY...                         JOHNSON...
GOSHEN...                         OAK GROVE...
SONORA...                         MAYFIELD...
SHADY GROVE...                    BEST...
LOOKOUT...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 49 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 60 AND 74.

LAT...LON 3606 9374 3603 9421 3617 9428 3634 9386
      3634 9385 3633 9385 3631 9383 3631 9382
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 254DEG 27KT 3613 9410

Special weather statement, Oct 12, 3:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 12, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 12, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Oct 12, 5:04 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 12, 5:30 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
Oct 11, 10:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	36 min
Oct 11, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	24 min
Oct 11, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	32 min
Oct 11, 11:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	25 min
Oct 11, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	32 min
Oct 11, 11:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	39 min
Oct 12, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	46 min
Oct 12, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	40 min
Oct 12, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	42 min
Oct 12, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	37 min
Oct 12, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	31 min
Oct 12, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	29 min
Oct 12, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	30 min
Oct 12, 3:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Washington	41 min
Oct 12, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	42 min
Oct 12, 6:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	31 min
Oct 12, 7:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	34 min
Oct 12, 8:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	52 min
Oct 12, 8:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa	113 min
Oct 12, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	24 min
Oct 12, 12:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	37 min
Oct 12, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata	30 min
Oct 12, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	37 min
Oct 12, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	30 min
Oct 12, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	36 min
Oct 12, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	34 min
Oct 12, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	17 min
Oct 12, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	45 min
Oct 12, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	26 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.