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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this fire weather watch at Aug 3, 2012, 10:37 AM CDT for 14 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Aug 4, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 10:37 AM CDT (15:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 4, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 1:09 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, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 3, 9:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 9:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 9:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 12:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 28 min |
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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.