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Wind Advisory 30, NWS Norman, OK

June 8, 200824 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind advisory at Jun 8, 2008, 9:43 AM CDT for 24 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jun 8, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2008, 9:43 AM CDT (14:43 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 8, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jun 8, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 24 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 331 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jun 8, 4:21 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 4:21 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 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
Jun 8, 3:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 33 more	37 hr
Jun 8, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	31 min
Jun 8, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	50 min
Jun 8, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	27 min
Jun 8, 4:00 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	10 hr
Jun 8, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	28 min
Jun 8, 4:18 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	64 hr
Jun 8, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	47 min
Jun 8, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	43 min
Jun 8, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woodward	40 min
Jun 8, 4:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	10 hr
Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay, Noble	70 hr
Jun 8, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	32 min
Jun 8, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	46 min
Jun 8, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	45 min
Jun 8, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	24 min
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	46 min
Jun 8, 5:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods, Woodward	3 hr
Jun 8, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Woods	52 min
Jun 8, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	61 min
Jun 8, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	56 min
Jun 8, 6:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	3 hr
Jun 8, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Major, Woodward	27 min
Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woodward	49 min
Jun 8, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	49 min
Jun 8, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	46 min

Nearby

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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.