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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 18, 2023Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2023, 5:32 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 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 18, 2023, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2023, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 2431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 7.2

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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 18, 2:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 4:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 3:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 3:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 3:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 4:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:49 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:28 AM CDT, 4 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 17, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	25 min
Jun 17, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	50 min
Jun 17, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	64 min
Jun 17, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	52 min
Jun 17, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	45 min
Jun 17, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	56 min
Jun 17, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Osage, Pawnee	56 min
Jun 17, 11:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	48 min
Jun 17, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	66 min
Jun 17, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	34 min
Jun 17, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	47 min
Jun 17, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	45 min
Jun 17, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	44 min
Jun 17, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Choctaw, LeFlore, Pushmataha	23 min
Jun 18, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	40 min
Jun 18, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	53 min
Jun 18, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	63 min
Jun 18, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	60 min
Jun 18, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, LeFlore, Pushmataha	43 min
Jun 18, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	53 min
Jun 18, 12:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	35 min
Jun 18, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	48 min
Jun 18, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	42 min
Jun 18, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	38 min
Jun 18, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	47 min
Jun 18, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	14 min
Jun 18, 1:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Sequoyah	55 min
Jun 18, 1:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes	51 min
Jun 18, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa	61 min
Jun 18, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair	59 min
Jun 18, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	50 min
Jun 18, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	45 min
Jun 18, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	26 min
Jun 18, 4:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	41 min
Jun 18, 5:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	47 min
Jun 18, 6:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	35 min
Jun 18, 1:29 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TSA	Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers and 2 more	32 hr
Jun 18, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	40 min
Jun 18, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	53 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.