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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this frost advisory at May 3, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at May 4, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 4, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 4, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:56 PM CDT, 22 hours 45 minutes before
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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.