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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 18, 2019Adair County, Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; Benton County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jan 18, 2019, 11:13 PM CST for Adair County, Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 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
Jan 18, 2019, 11:13 PM CST (05:13 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 2019, 12:15 AM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Benton County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 2019-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2019-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 629 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
629 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
616 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Jan 18, 5:35 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 5:35 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 8:50 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek55 min
Jan 18, 9:20 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Tulsa, Wagoner25 min
Jan 18, 9:55 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Okmulgee, Wagoner35 min
Jan 18, 10:12 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSACherokee, Creek, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner3 hr
Jan 18, 10:32 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSACherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner43 min
Jan 18, 10:56 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg49 min
Jan 18, 11:00 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSADelaware3 hr
Jan 18, 11:14 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah61 min
Jan 18, 11:57 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, Latimer, Sequoyah63 min
Jan 18, 11:56 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington64 min
Jan 19, 1:01 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian59 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2019Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2019Every special weather statement in 2019

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.