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Red Flag Warning 30, NWS Norman, OK

May 2, 20084 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at May 2, 2008, 10:04 AM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at May 2, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 2, 2008, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
In effect from: May 2, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 2, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
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 15:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 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-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: 1730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at May 2, 9:37 AM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 9:37 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 6:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 4:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 5:17 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 5:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 5:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 6:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 9:15 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	43 min
May 1, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	34 min
May 1, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	24 min
May 1, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	21 min
May 1, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Payne	34 min
May 1, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma	47 min
May 1, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	17 min
May 1, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	11 min
May 1, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	44 min
May 1, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	39 min
May 1, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	16 min
May 1, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	20 min
May 1, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	37 min
May 1, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	35 min
May 1, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	27 min
May 1, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble, Payne	48 min
May 2, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Oklahoma	28 min
May 2, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	40 min
May 2, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Logan, McClain, Oklahoma and 1 more	34 min
May 2, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	47 min
May 2, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	38 min
May 2, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	30 min
May 2, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	26 min
May 2, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Stephens	49 min
May 2, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	44 min
May 2, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	48 min
May 2, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc	45 min
May 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 13 more	8 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008 Every red flag warning in 2008

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.