Alert archive / Oklahoma / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this red flag warning at Feb 6, 2015, 3:31 AM CST for 7 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Feb 6, 2015, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 3 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
- Feb 6, 2015, 3:31 AM CST (09:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2015, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2015, 3:20 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
194 WWUS84 KTSA 060931 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 331 AM CST FRI FEB 6 2015 OKZ054>057-059>061-064-070000- /O.NEW.KTSA.FW.W.0003.150206T1800Z-150207T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-CREEK- 331 AM CST FRI FEB 6 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...PAWNEE...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CRAIG...NOWATA... CREEK...TULSA AND ROGERS. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY THIS AFTERNOON...GUSTING AS HIGH AS 30 MPH AT TIMES. THE STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S...AND AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE TO CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. THE WORST CONDITIONS WILL BE FOUND ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 44. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
826 WWUS84 KTSA 062120 RFWTSA FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 320 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2015 OKZ054>057-059>061-064-062230- /O.CAN.KTSA.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150207T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-CREEK- 320 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...CREEK...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CRAIG...NOWATA... PAWNEE...TULSA AND ROGERS. * TEMPERATURES REMAIN IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOW 60S ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DANGEROUS WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR HAS LESSENED. THE GUSTY WINDS AND DRY FUELS WILL MAINTAIN A RISK OF RAPID FIRE SPREAD THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...AT WHICH TIME WINDS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN. && $$
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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.