Alert archive / Oklahoma / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this red flag warning at Apr 26, 2014, 5:07 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 27, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Apr 26, 2014, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 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 22:04 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 468 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
210 WWUS84 KTSA 262207 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 507 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 OKZ054-059-271200- /O.NEW.KTSA.FW.W.0021.140427T1700Z-140428T0300Z/ OSAGE-PAWNEE- 507 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 10 PM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 10 PM CDT SUNDAY... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...PAWNEE AND OSAGE. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * A DRY LINE WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM. WARM...DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE DRY LINE WITH DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITIES 20 TO 25 PERCENT. * STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH LIKELY. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
781 WWUS84 KTSA 270917 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 417 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 OKZ054-059-271730- /O.CON.KTSA.FW.W.0021.140427T1700Z-140428T0300Z/ OSAGE-PAWNEE- 417 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...PAWNEE AND OSAGE. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * A DRYLINE WILL WILL MOVE INTO OSAGE AND PAWNEE COUNTIES AROUND NOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 PERCENT * STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL GUSTS TO 40 TO 45 MILES N HOUR. IMPACTS... * ANY FIRES WILL QUICKLY SPREAD OUT OF CONTROL AND ENDANGER LIVES AND PROPERTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * DISPOSE OF CIGARETTES PROPERLY AND AVOID ACTIVITIES THAT COULD START FIRES. * STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER EVENT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT: WEATHER.GOV/TULSA. && $$
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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.