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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Norman, OK

November 30, 20074 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this high wind watch at Nov 30, 2007, 5:03 AM CST for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Dec 1, 2007, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 30, 2007, 5:03 AM CST (11:03 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 1, 2007, 8:00 AM CST
Expired
Nov 30, 2007, 3:14 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK

Counties Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-11-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-11-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
267 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 high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 30, 4:35 AM CST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 4:35 AM CST, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 30, 3:14 PM CSTHigh Wind WarningOUNEllis, Harper, Woods, Woodward24 hr
Nov 30, 3:14 PM CSTWind AdvisoryOUNAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 27 more27 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Oklahoma, 2007Every high wind watch in 2007

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.