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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 25, 2021Haskell County, LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2021, 12:09 AM CDT for Haskell County, LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 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
Mar 25, 2021, 12:09 AM CDT (05:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2021, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Haskell County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2021-03-25Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2021-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

972 
WWUS84 KTSA 250509
SPSTSA

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
1209 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
 
OKZ068-070>072-074>076-250545-
Haskell OK-Muskogee OK-Latimer OK-Sequoyah OK-Cherokee OK-
Le Flore OK-McIntosh OK-
1209 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HASKELL...EAST CENTRAL
MCINTOSH...WESTERN SEQUOYAH...EASTERN LATIMER...CENTRAL LE FLORE...
SOUTH CENTRAL CHEROKEE AND SOUTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES UNTIL 1245
AM CDT...

At 1209 AM CDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 3 miles northwest of Porum to near Lequire to 2 miles
west of Talihina. Movement was northeast at 55 mph.

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

Locations in or near the path include...
Sallisaw...                       Poteau...
Stigler...                        Spiro...
Warner...                         Vian...
Panama...                         Talihina...
Wister...                         Gore...
Howe...                           Porum...
Webbers Falls...                  Keota...
Red Oak...                        Mccurtain...
Bokoshe...                        Fanshawe...
Whitefield...                     Gans...

This includes Interstate 40 in Oklahoma between mile markers 276 and
316.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3500 9525 3537 9548 3572 9493 3543 9464
      3490 9459 3468 9518
TIME...MOT...LOC 0509Z 224DEG 47KT 3539 9531 3509 9512 3475 9508 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell47 min
Mar 24, 10:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg42 min
Mar 24, 11:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg48 min
Mar 25, 12:42 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah48 min
Mar 25, 5:47 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryTSAMuskogee26 hr

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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.