Alert archive / Oklahoma / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this wind advisory at Feb 1, 2015, 3:43 AM CST for 7 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Feb 1, 2015, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 1, 2015, 3:43 AM CST (09:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 1, 2015, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 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 09:44 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, 9.7 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 452 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
475 WWUS74 KTSA 010943 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 343 AM CST SUN FEB 1 2015 OKZ054>057-059>061-064-020000- /O.NEW.KTSA.WI.Y.0002.150201T1500Z-150202T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-CREEK- 343 AM CST SUN FEB 1 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...PAWNEE...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CRAIG...NOWATA... CREEK...TULSA AND ROGERS. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE AND BECOME GUSTY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING. IMPACTS... * WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY. * WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. DEFINITION... * A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. EXTRA ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CROSS WINDS AND ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
989 WWUS74 KTSA 020004 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 604 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2015 OKZ054>057-059>061-064-020115- /O.EXP.KTSA.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-150202T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-CREEK- 604 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN OKLAHOMA...CREEK...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CRAIG...NOWATA... PAWNEE...TULSA AND ROGERS. * THE STRONG WINDS HAVE DECREASED. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * ALTHOUGH THE WINDS HAVE SLOWLY BEGUN TO SUBSIDE...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID TO LATE EVENING. && $$
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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.