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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

January 18, 201410 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this fire weather watch at Jan 18, 2014, 3:06 PM CST for 10 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jan 19, 2014, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 18, 2014, 3:06 PM CST (21:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 19, 2014, 10:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 19, 2014, 4:54 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2014-01-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2014-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 373 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
373 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
398 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 10:35 AM CSTRed Flag WarningTSACreek, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 5 more7 hr
Jan 18, 11:01 AM CSTWind AdvisoryTSACraig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Pawnee and 3 more7 hr

Nearby

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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.