Alert archive / Oklahoma / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 15, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this wind advisory at Nov 19, 2011, 8:38 AM CST for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 19, 2011, 8:38 AM CST (14:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2011, 3:25 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 651 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 603 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
481 WWUS74 KTSA 191438 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 838 AM CST SAT NOV 19 2011 OKZ054>058-192200- /O.NEW.KTSA.WI.Y.0015.111119T1438Z-111119T2200Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-OTTAWA- 838 AM CST SAT NOV 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...OTTAWA...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CRAIG AND NOWATA. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL OCCASIONALLY GUST TO 40 MILES AN HOUR OR HIGHER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. IMPACTS... * WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST WEST ROADS. DEFINITION... * A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. EXTRA ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CROSS WINDS AND ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. && $$
1 follow-up statement
636 WWUS74 KTSA 192125 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 325 PM CST SAT NOV 19 2011 OKZ054>058-192230- /O.CAN.KTSA.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-111119T2200Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-OTTAWA- 325 PM CST SAT NOV 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...OTTAWA...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CRAIG AND NOWATA. * THE STRONGER WINDS HAVE DECREASED...HOWEVER GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AT 25 TO 30 MPH WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON HOURS. && $$
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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.