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Heat Advisory 18, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this heat advisory at Sep 7, 2015, 2:08 PM CDT for 12 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2015, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2015, 6:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 Sep 7, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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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.