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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 10, 2023Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2023, 9:11 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 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 10, 2023, 9:11 AM CDT (14:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2023, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 1436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 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 10, 6:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 6:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 5:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:11 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:23 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:26 AM CDT, 45 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 9, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	25 min
Jun 9, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	21 min
Jun 9, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	29 min
Jun 9, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	25 min
Jun 9, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	23 min
Jun 9, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	35 min
Jun 9, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	32 min
Jun 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	32 min
Jun 9, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	35 min
Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	30 min
Jun 9, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	29 min
Jun 9, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	34 min
Jun 9, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	29 min
Jun 9, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	31 min
Jun 9, 8:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	32 min
Jun 9, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	28 min
Jun 10, 3:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	57 min
Jun 10, 3:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	33 min
Jun 10, 4:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Washington	45 min
Jun 10, 4:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	42 min
Jun 10, 4:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	50 min
Jun 10, 5:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	8 min
Jun 10, 5:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers	46 min
Jun 10, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa	45 min
Jun 10, 6:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	43 min
Jun 10, 6:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	31 min
Jun 10, 6:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	41 min
Jun 10, 6:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	36 min
Jun 10, 7:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	49 min
Jun 10, 7:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pushmataha	47 min
Jun 10, 7:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pittsburg	118 min
Jun 10, 8:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	44 min
Jun 10, 8:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	52 min
Jun 10, 8:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	49 min
Jun 9, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Polk	27 min
Jun 10, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Crawford, Washington	42 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.