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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2018, 12:49 PM CDT for Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 2, 2018, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2018, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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</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 Jun 2, 12:42 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 12:42 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Tulsa OK 1242 PM CDT Sat Jun 2 2018 .AVIATION... CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KBVO/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM/KROG. Scattered to broken mid clouds are expected to continue to spread across the CWA as a cold front moves through the region. Along and ahead of the front...scattered convection will be possible over mainly Northwest Arkansas into Southeast Oklahoma through the afternoon hours and will carry VCTS for Northwest Arkansas TAF sites. Behind the frontal boundary...breezy northerly winds are forecast with lighter northerly winds overnight into Sunday. Cloud cover should begin to clear out this evening with mostly clear conditions forecast overnight into Sunday. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /Issued 1052 AM CDT Sat Jun 2 2018/ ..UPDATE... DISCUSSION... At mid morning...a cold front was located from Southwest Oklahoma to Northeast Kansas. Out ahead of the front...an outflow boundary associated with the decaying MCS over Southwest Missouri was pushing rain cooled air southward into far Northeast Oklahoma. Across the rest of Eastern Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas...mostly clear to mostly cloudy skies were common with temps in the mid/upper 80s over East Central/Southeast Oklahoma and West Central Arkansas. Through this afternoon...the outflow boundary is expected to slow its progression southward and get overtaken by the cold front pushing southeast into/across the CWA. Will keep a slight chance pop along/near the outflow boundary through the morning hours and then continue the increasing pops for the afternoon hours across Southeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas ahead of the front. Large amounts of CAPE with marginal shear values are forecast ahead of the front as the cap currently in place looks to erode this afternoon. These conditions will allow for at least a limited severe potential this afternoon into the evening hours before the front exits the CWA. Damaging winds and large hail look to be the main threats. Also ahead of the cold front...dewpoints in the mid 70s and temps warming into the low/mid 90s will aid in afternoon heat index values reaching to the 105-106 degree range over parts of Southeast Oklahoma and West Central Arkansas. Thus...will issue a heat advisory for these locations running 18z-00z with the thought that parts of the advisory could be cancelled early behind the cold front. Behind the front...across Northeast Oklahoma into far Northwest Arkansas...afternoon temps in the upper 80s to low 90s will be possible along with breezy northerly winds. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 64 88 62 87 / 0 0 0 10 FSM 66 87 63 89 / 30 0 0 10 MLC 65 85 61 85 / 10 0 0 10 BVO 58 86 57 87 / 0 0 0 10 FYV 59 82 53 83 / 20 0 0 10 BYV 61 85 57 84 / 20 0 0 10 MKO 63 85 60 87 / 10 0 0 10 MIO 60 84 57 86 / 0 0 0 10 F10 65 84 61 85 / 10 0 0 10 HHW 69 88 63 88 / 40 0 0 10 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...Heat Advisory until 7 PM CDT this evening for OKZ049-053-073>076. AR...Heat Advisory until 7 PM CDT this evening for ARZ029. && AVIATION.....20
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 11:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Tulsa OK 1249 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2018 ARZ010-019-OKZ068>070-072-074-021830- Washington AR-Crawford AR-Haskell OK-Adair OK-Muskogee OK- Sequoyah OK-Cherokee OK- 1249 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2018 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD... SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON...NORTHEASTERN HASKELL...NORTHWESTERN SEQUOYAH...SOUTHERN ADAIR...SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE AND SOUTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM CDT... At 1248 PM CDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 3 miles southwest of Stilwell to 3 miles east of Porum. Movement was east at 30 mph. Dime size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with these storms. Locations in or near the path include... Sallisaw... Stilwell... Vian... Porum... Marble City... Tamaha... Brushy... Strickler... Brushy Lake State Park... Bunch... Box... Mc Key... Odell... This includes Interstate 40 in Oklahoma between mile markers 288 and 310. LAT...LON 3585 9425 3529 9490 3531 9533 3582 9468 TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 264DEG 25KT 3578 9468 3537 9521
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:52 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | TSA | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 23 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.