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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 3, 2023Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2023, 5:31 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2023, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2023, 5:52 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:44 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:03 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:04 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:17 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:25 PM CDT, 6 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
Jun 3, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	28 min
Jun 3, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	36 min
Jun 3, 12:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Delaware	3 hr
Jun 3, 12:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	37 min
Jun 3, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	36 min
Jun 3, 12:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	34 min
Jun 3, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Mayes	35 min
Jun 3, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	31 min
Jun 3, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	24 min
Jun 3, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	42 min
Jun 3, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	47 min
Jun 3, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	44 min
Jun 3, 2:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	28 min
Jun 3, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	25 min
Jun 3, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	29 min
Jun 3, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	26 min
Jun 3, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	37 min
Jun 3, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	27 min
Jun 3, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	35 min
Jun 3, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	38 min
Jun 3, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	36 min
Jun 3, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	35 min
Jun 3, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	41 min
Jun 3, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	32 min
Jun 3, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	28 min
Jun 3, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	25 min
Jun 3, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	32 min
Jun 3, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	30 min
Jun 3, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	41 min
Jun 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	3 hr
Jun 3, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	28 min
Jun 3, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Hughes	35 min
Jun 3, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	33 min
Jun 3, 5:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	2 hr
Jun 3, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	37 min
Jun 3, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	28 min
Jun 3, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	37 min
Jun 3, 6:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	71 min
Jun 3, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	28 min
Jun 3, 11:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	23 min
Jun 3, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	31 min
Jun 3, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	30 min
Jun 3, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	23 min
Jun 3, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	37 min
Jun 3, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	48 min
Jun 3, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	42 min
Jun 3, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	46 min
Jun 3, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	23 min
Jun 3, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	34 min
Jun 3, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	27 min
Jun 3, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	35 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.