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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 11, 2013Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this heat advisory at Jul 11, 2013, 3:45 AM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2013, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 1348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 11, 12:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 12:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 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
Jul 11, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	37 min
Jul 11, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	35 min
Jul 11, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	36 min
Jul 11, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	55 min
Jul 11, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	24 min
Jul 11, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	37 min
Jul 11, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	36 min
Jul 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	33 min
Jul 11, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	36 min
Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	32 min
Jul 11, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	35 min
Jul 11, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	28 min
Jul 11, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	38 min
Jul 11, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	40 min
Jul 11, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	28 min
Jul 11, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	37 min
Jul 10, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	37 min
Jul 10, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	62 min
Jul 10, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	41 min
Jul 10, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison, Washington	65 min
Jul 10, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	36 min
Jul 10, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	41 min
Jul 10, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	35 min
Jul 10, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington	41 min
Jul 10, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	62 min
Jul 10, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	24 min
Jul 11, 4:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	36 min
Jul 11, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	25 min
Jul 11, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	33 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.