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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 12, 201022 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 12, 2010, 1:41 PM CDT for 22 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jul 13, 2010, 3:02 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 2010, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 13, 2010, 3:02 AM CDT
Expired
Jul 23, 2010, 8:57 PM CDT
In force
11 days
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
All 22 counties

Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2010-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2828 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2010-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2828 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 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 excessive heat warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 12, 12:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 3:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa29 min
Jul 12, 3:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa, Wagoner28 min
Jul 12, 4:26 AM CDTExcessive Heat WatchTSAAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more23 hr
Jul 12, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore41 min
Jul 12, 4:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore42 min
Jul 12, 4:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchTSABenton, Carroll, Madison, Washington27 hr

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.