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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2024, 7:41 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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
- May 8, 2024, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2024, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 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 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 May 8, 7:09 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 7:09 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Tulsa OK 442 PM CDT Wed May 8 2024 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-091030- 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- 442 PM CDT Wed May 8 2024 ...SEVERE STORM THREAT THRU THIS EVENING... This Outlook is for Northwest and West Central Arkansas as well as much of Eastern Oklahoma. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. TORNADO. RISK...Limited to Elevated. AREA...East of US highway 69. ONSET...Ongoing...ending by mid-evening. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...Significant. AREA...East of US highway 69. ONSET...Ongoing...ending by mid-evening. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...West-central and northwest Arkansas and extreme eastern Oklahoma. FLASH FLOOD. RISK...Limited. AREA...Far Northeast Oklahoma into Northwest Arkansas. ONSET...Ongoing...ending by mid-evening. DISCUSSION... A slow-moving cold front will collide with a very unstable and strongly sheared air mass over eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas to bring scattered strong to severe storms this afternoon and into the evening, primarily east of US highway 69. Very large hail to 2 inches in diameter or greater and isolated damaging wind are the primary threats. Low level shear isn't particularly strong (especially compared to Monday night's event), but there is enough to support some tornado threat with the more discrete cells. Locally heavy rainfall may support an isolated flash flood threat, especially across far northeast Oklahoma into northwest Arkansas where storms will have more of a tendency to train over the same areas. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... Activation of the Regional Spotter Network Expected. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. THURSDAY...Thunderstorm Potential. FRIDAY and SATURDAY...No Hazards. SUNDAY thru TUESDAY...Thunderstorm Potential. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... A slight chance of thunderstorms will remain across far southeast Oklahoma on Thursday with dry and mild weather for areas further north. The quiet weather pattern will continue for late week into the weekend with thunderstorm chances returning by early next week. weather.gov/tulsa contains additional information.
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Local storm report, May 8, 7:26 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 44 min |
| May 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 41 min |
| May 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| May 8, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 23 min |
| May 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 45 min |
| May 8, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 40 min |
| May 8, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| May 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 25 min |
| May 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 28 min |
| May 8, 8:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Choctaw | 2 hr |
| May 8, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 36 min |
| May 8, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 48 min |
| May 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| May 8, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| May 9, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 33 min |
| May 9, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 32 min |
| May 9, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 36 min |
| May 9, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 24 min |
| May 9, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 35 min |
| May 9, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 30 min |
| May 9, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 35 min |
| May 9, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 12 min |
| May 9, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 24 min |
| May 9, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 25 min |
| May 9, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 25 min |
| May 9, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 22 min |
| May 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 26 min |
| May 8, 7:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 29 min |
| May 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison, Washington | 53 min |
| May 8, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 29 min |
| May 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 6 min |
| May 8, 8:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 23 min |
| May 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 13 min |
| May 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 27 min |
| May 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 20 min |
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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.