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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 5, 2018Adair County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2018, 7:04 PM CDT for Adair County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 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 5, 2018, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2018, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

County Adair County, OK

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2018-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1515 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2018-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 Jul 5, 6:29 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 6:29 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
415 PM CDT Thu Jul 5 2018

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-061015-
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-
415 PM CDT Thu Jul 5 2018

This Outlook is for Northwest and West Central Arkansas as well as
much of Eastern Oklahoma.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
	RISK...Limited.
	AREA...Southeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

DANGEROUS HEAT.
	RISK...Limited.
	AREA...Eastern Oklahoma and West Central Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

DISCUSSION...

Scattered thunderstorms across southeast Oklahoma and northwest
Arkansas will produce strong to marginally severe wind gusts thru
early evening. Storm coverage is expected to diminish after sunset.

Outside of thunderstorm influence, heat index values will rise into
the 100 to 105 degree range across much of eastern Oklahoma and west
central Arkansas.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
Spotter Activation Not Expected.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.
FRIDAY...Thunderstorm Potential.
SATURDAY and SUNDAY...No Hazards.
MONDAY through WEDNESDAY...Thunderstorm Potential.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
A weak cold front will move into the area on Friday bringing
a chance of thunderstorms.  Drier and slightly cooler conditions
will follow the front over the weekend.  Thunderstorm chances
return early next week as a more humid airmass spreads back
across the region.

weather.gov/tulsa contains additional information.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:04 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACherokee27 min
Jul 5, 8:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware31 min
Jul 5, 9:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACherokee31 min
Jul 5, 11:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkmulgee24 min
Jul 5, 11:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkfuskee41 min
Jul 6, 1:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer, Pittsburg51 min
Jul 6, 12:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware34 min
Jul 6, 12:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSANowata27 min
Jul 6, 1:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSANowata33 min
Jul 6, 1:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware30 min
Jul 6, 1:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMayes35 min
Jul 6, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Washington41 min
Jul 6, 1:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair25 min
Jul 6, 1:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig26 min
Jul 6, 1:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington24 min
Jul 6, 1:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware37 min
Jul 6, 1:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington34 min
Jul 6, 2:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair, Cherokee50 min
Jul 6, 2:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOsage, Washington60 min
Jul 6, 2:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWagoner25 min
Jul 6, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Mayes, Wagoner37 min
Jul 6, 2:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa27 min
Jul 6, 2:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWagoner34 min
Jul 6, 3:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa, Wagoner49 min
Jul 6, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa, Wagoner46 min
Jul 6, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Tulsa, Wagoner36 min
Jul 6, 3:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh37 min
Jul 6, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg27 min
Jul 6, 4:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Okmulgee53 min
Jul 6, 4:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha62 min
Jul 6, 4:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg34 min
Jul 6, 4:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell30 min
Jul 6, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah40 min
Jul 6, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw16 min
Jul 6, 5:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkfuskee13 min
Jul 6, 5:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer25 min
Jul 5, 9:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll28 min
Jul 5, 9:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton26 min
Jul 5, 10:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll53 min
Jul 6, 1:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton31 min
Jul 6, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton40 min
Jul 6, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford, Franklin, Sebastian38 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASebastian65 min
Jul 6, 5:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMadison32 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.