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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this red flag warning at Sep 7, 2012, 3:47 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2012, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:54 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Claremore, OK | SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED. SOME ROOF DAMAGE IN TOWN. |
| Sep 7, 5:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 N Tahlequah, OK | BARN ROOF BLOWN OFF. 4-6 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN. |
| Sep 7, 5:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Checotah, OK | FENCES DOWN. ROOF DAMAGE. METAL SHED ROOF BLOWN OFF. ESTIMATED GUST TO 70 MPH. |
| Sep 7, 5:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Tamaha, OK | NUMEROUS LARGE LIMBS BROKEN BY WIND. ROOF ON SHED DAMAGED. |
| Sep 7, 5:53 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Keota, OK | ROOF BLOWN OFF ONE HOUSE. MANY TREES DAMAGED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
914 WWUS84 KTSA 072047 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 347 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE FRONT OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA... .HOT...DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS HAVE DEVELOPED AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH IS PUSHING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. THESE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNSET...AND WINDS WILL THEN SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND BECOME VERY STRONG BEHIND THE FRONT THIS EVENING. OKZ061-062-067-068-070>075-080100- /O.NEW.KTSA.FW.W.0012.120907T2047Z-120908T0100Z/ ROGERS-MAYES-WAGONER-CHEROKEE-MUSKOGEE-MCINTOSH-SEQUOYAH- PITTSBURG-HASKELL-LATIMER- 347 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...WAGONER...CHEROKEE...MAYES...PITTSBURG... SEQUOYAH...MCINTOSH...MUSKOGEE...ROGERS...LATIMER AND HASKELL. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE ONGOING OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. CONDITIONS ARE CONDUCIVE FOR THE RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF WILDFIRES. * LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT. * STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH AHEAD OF THE FRONT. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:22 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TSA | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Okfuskee and 7 more | 17 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 41 min |
| Sep 7, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 50 min |
| Sep 7, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 17 min |
| Sep 7, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 35 min |
| Sep 7, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 39 min |
| Sep 7, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 52 min |
| Sep 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 59 min |
| Sep 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 24 min |
| Sep 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Sep 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.