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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this heat advisory at Jul 26, 2008, 4:05 AM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jul 26, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 55 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2008, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 26, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 3358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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.