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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 10, 2019Craig County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 10, 2019, 9:49 PM CDT for Craig 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: Oct 10, 2019, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2019, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Craig County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.1

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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 10, 9:39 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 9:39 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 8:58 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 10, 7:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
729 PM CDT THU OCT 10 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0727 PM     HAIL             MUSKOGEE                35.75N 95.37W
10/10/2019  E0.88 INCH       MUSKOGEE           OK   PUBLIC

&&

JDS

Special weather statement, Oct 10, 7:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
740 PM CDT Thu Oct 10 2019

OKZ049-110115-
Pushmataha OK-
740 PM CDT Thu Oct 10 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM CDT...

At 740 PM CDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 5 miles southeast of Nashoba to 5 miles north of
Oleta. Movement was east at 35 mph.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storms.

Locations in or near the path include...
Rattan...                         Oleta...
Cloudy...                         Corinne...
Sobol...

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM CDT for
southeastern Oklahoma.

LAT...LON 3416 9548 3447 9515 3447 9505 3425 9505
      3424 9515 3416 9515
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 273DEG 30KT 3442 9516 3427 9537

Local storm report, Oct 10, 7:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
742 PM CDT THU OCT 10 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     TSTM WND GST     CECIL                   35.44N 93.94W
10/10/2019  E65 MPH          FRANKLIN           AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SPOTTER REPORTED THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 60 TO 65 MPH WITH
            SMALL LIMBS BROKEN OUT OF LIVE TREES.

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 8:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 8:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 9:49 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 10, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	43 min
Oct 10, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	54 min
Oct 10, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	35 min
Oct 10, 7:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	3 hr
Oct 10, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	25 min
Oct 10, 8:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	51 hr
Oct 10, 8:53 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	11 hr
Oct 10, 8:53 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	30 hr
Oct 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	40 min
Oct 11, 6:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Latimer	3 hr
Oct 11, 7:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware, Sequoyah	12 hr
Oct 11, 7:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Delaware	19 hr
Oct 11, 7:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	38 hr
Oct 11, 1:08 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more	19 hr
Oct 10, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	57 min
Oct 10, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	40 min
Oct 10, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	37 min
Oct 10, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Polk	44 min

Nearby

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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.