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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 8, 2024Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2024, 8:06 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2024, 8:34 PM CDT
In force
28 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 01:05 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 8, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 May 8, 7:09 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 7:09 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 4:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 7:30 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair44 min
May 8, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha41 min
May 8, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah50 min
May 8, 7:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell23 min
May 8, 7:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAAdair45 min
May 8, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah40 min
May 8, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha39 min
May 8, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw49 min
May 8, 7:50 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSAAdair3 hr
May 8, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Sequoyah25 min
May 8, 8:09 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSAChoctaw2 hr
May 8, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore36 min
May 8, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah49 min
May 8, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah48 min
May 8, 9:00 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSALeFlore3 hr
May 8, 9:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSALeFlore3 hr
May 9, 2:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkfuskee33 min
May 9, 2:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkfuskee32 min
May 9, 2:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkmulgee36 min
May 9, 2:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPittsburg24 min
May 9, 2:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMuskogee35 min
May 9, 3:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell30 min
May 9, 3:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMcIntosh35 min
May 9, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee12 min
May 9, 3:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMuskogee24 min
May 9, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell25 min
May 9, 3:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw25 min
May 9, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw22 min
May 8, 7:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll26 min
May 8, 7:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll29 min
May 8, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACarroll, Madison, Washington53 min
May 8, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington29 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACarroll6 min
May 8, 8:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMadison23 min
May 8, 8:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll13 min
May 8, 8:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford, Franklin, Madison33 min
May 8, 9:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMadison27 min
May 8, 9:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAFranklin20 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.