Alert archive / Oklahoma / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this red flag warning at Jan 15, 2012, 1:36 PM CST for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2012, 1:36 PM CST (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2012, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 2718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
431 WWUS84 KTSA 151936 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 136 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 OKZ054-059-152300- /O.NEW.KTSA.FW.W.0001.120115T1936Z-120115T2300Z/ OSAGE-PAWNEE- 136 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...PAWNEE AND OSAGE. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * SHORT TERM RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL BE MET THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS OSAGE AND PAWNEE COUNTIES. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE BEFORE SUNSET AS HUMIDITIES INCREASE. * LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 15 TO 20 PERCENT ARE ONGOING. * STRONG WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. IMPACTS... * ANY FIRES WILL QUICKLY SPREAD OUT OF CONTROL AND ENDANGER LIVES AND PROPERTY. DEFINITION... * A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND DRY VEGETATION IS EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS...FAVORING RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ANY WILDFIRES. THE PRIMARY WEATHER FACTORS INCLUDE STRONGER WINDS...LOWER HUMIDITIES...AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * DISPOSE OF CIGARETTES PROPERLY AND AVOID ACTIVITIES THAT COULD START FIRES. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER EVENT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT: WEATHER.GOV/TULSA. && $$
1 follow-up statement
006 WWUS84 KTSA 152238 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 438 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE ENDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON... .TEMPERATURES ARE COOLING OFF AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE CLIMBING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER CRITICAL AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. OKZ054-059-152345- /O.EXP.KTSA.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120115T2300Z/ OSAGE-PAWNEE- 438 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...PAWNEE AND OSAGE. * THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * TEMPERATURES HAVE COOLED AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE CLIMBED HIGH ENOUGH THAT CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER CONSIDERED CRITICAL. HOWEVER...WINDS REMAIN STRONG AND THE FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN ELEVATED FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. OUTDOOR BURNING IS STILL DISCOURAGED. && $$
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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.