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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this heat advisory at Jul 15, 2015, 4:27 AM CDT for 19 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jul 15, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2015, 4:27 AM CDT (09:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 15, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 2459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 14, 6:37 PM CDT, 9 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 6:37 PM CDT, 9 hours 50 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.