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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Norman, OK

January 6, 201512 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 6, 2015, 2:34 PM CST for 12 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jan 7, 2015, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 6, 2015, 2:34 PM CST (20:34 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 7, 2015, 3:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 7, 2015, 10:00 AM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK

Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 311 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-01-06Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-01-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Jan 6, 2:30 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 2:30 PM CST, 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 6, 11:40 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1140 AM CST TUE JAN 6 2015

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-071100-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-
NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-
BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-
CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-
TILLMAN-COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-
JEFFERSON-CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-
FOARD-WILBARGER-WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1140 AM CST TUE JAN 6 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN...
WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT...

.COLD WEATHER...
ANOTHER STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BRING VERY LOW WIND CHILL
READINGS...COLD TEMPERATURES...AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS TO THE
AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

.COLD WEATHER...
VERY LOW WIND CHILL READINGS...COLD TEMPERATURES...AND GUSTY
WINDS WILL CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAY. LOW WIND CHILLS AND COLD
TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY
MORNING...THOUGH WINDS WILL NOT BE AS STRONG.

.WINTER PRECIPITATION...
SOME RAIN AND WINTER PRECIPITATION IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS.
CONTINUE TO CHECK FORECAST UPDATES THIS WEEK.

GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW
OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.

MBS/30

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Oklahoma, 2015Every wind chill advisory in 2015

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.