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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 6, 201115 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this fire weather watch at Aug 6, 2011, 3:09 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Aug 8, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 2011, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 8, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 8, 2011, 3:36 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Craig County, OK, Creek 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, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -473 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Aug 5, 6:33 PM CDT, 20 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 6:33 PM CDT, 20 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner	20 min
Aug 6, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	49 min
Aug 6, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	27 min
Aug 6, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	30 min
Aug 6, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	35 min
Aug 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	40 min
Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	33 min
Aug 6, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	40 min
Aug 6, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	17 min
Aug 6, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	24 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.