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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 4, 2021Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Sep 4, 2021, 3:23 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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
Sep 4, 2021, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Hail
0.00 in
Wind
50

County Pawnee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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 12:00Z on 2021-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 980 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 12:00Z on 2021-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 Sep 4, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 4, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
102 PM CDT Sat Sep 4 2021

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-051030-
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-
102 PM CDT Sat Sep 4 2021

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...Limited.
	AREA...Northeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.
	ONSET...Mid Afternoon.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...Limited.
	AREA...Northeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.
	ONSET...Late Afternoon.

DANGEROUS HEAT.
	RISK...Elevated.
	AREA...Much of eastern Oklahoma and west central Arkansas.
	ONSET...Ongoing.

DISCUSSION...
A cold front will push into the area today, triggering showers and
storms mainly this afternoon, evening and overnight. Storms this
afternoon will likely produce locally heavy rainfall given the
highly saturated environment and may produce locally heavy
rainfall in portions of northeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas.
Some storms may briefly become severe this afternoon across
northeast Oklahoma and far northwest Arkansas with damaging wind
gusts the main severe weather concern.

South of the boundary, locations in, near, and to the south of
Tulsa will see heat indices approach 105 degrees this afternoon.
These elevated heat indices may be short lived as showers and
storms develop or dew points lower as mixing occurs.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
Local Spotter Activation May Be Needed.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.
SUNDAY...Thunderstorm Potential.
MONDAY through FRIDAY...No Hazards.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
Showers and storms will linger across southeast portions of
Oklahoma Sunday morning and early afternoon before gradually
exiting by Sunday evening.

Monday through Friday will see dry weather with another cold front
expected to move through Tuesday night into Wednesday. This front
lower temperatures a little but, more importantly, it will knock
down the dew points. The heat will return to end the week as a
ridge builds into the area, but the humidity will be lacking.

weather.gov/tulsa contains additional information.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 4, 2:53 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 1:34 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryTSAHaskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 2 more5 hr
Sep 4, 2:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOttawa37 min
Sep 4, 3:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOttawa24 min
Sep 4, 5:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek27 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.