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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 23, 2025Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Apr 23, 2025, 4:29 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2025, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	23 min
Apr 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	34 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	30 min
Apr 23, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	31 min
Apr 23, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	26 min
Apr 23, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	25 min
Apr 23, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	26 min
Apr 23, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	31 min
Apr 23, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	25 min
Apr 23, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	37 min
Apr 23, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	29 min
Apr 23, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	33 min
Apr 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	29 min
Apr 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	34 min
Apr 23, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	48 min
Apr 23, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	28 min
Apr 23, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	33 min
Apr 23, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	36 min
Apr 23, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	36 min
Apr 23, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	23 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.