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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this wind advisory at Dec 20, 2015, 3:09 AM CST for 11 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Dec 20, 2015, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2015, 3:09 AM CST (09:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2015, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2015, 3:20 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee 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), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
257 WWUS74 KTSA 200909 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 309 AM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 OKZ054>057-059>062-064>067-210000- /O.NEW.KTSA.WI.Y.0005.151220T1400Z-151221T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-MAYES-CREEK- OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-WAGONER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAWHUSKA...BARTLESVILLE...NOWATA... VINITA...PAWNEE...TULSA...CLAREMORE...PRYOR...BRISTOW...OKEMAH... OKMULGEE...WAGONER 309 AM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 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 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN OKLAHOMA...OSAGE...WASHINGTON...NOWATA... CRAIG...PAWNEE...TULSA...ROGERS...MAYES...CREEK...OKFUSKEE... OKMULGEE...AND WAGONER COUNTIES. * TIMING...THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * WINDS...GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG WEST TO EAST ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...AND OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE HIGH WINDS. * A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. && $$
1 follow-up statement
549 WWUS74 KTSA 202120 NPWTSA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 320 PM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 OKZ054>057-059>062-064>067-202230- /O.CAN.KTSA.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-151221T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-MAYES-CREEK- OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-WAGONER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAWHUSKA...BARTLESVILLE...NOWATA... VINITA...PAWNEE...TULSA...CLAREMORE...PRYOR...BRISTOW...OKEMAH... OKMULGEE...WAGONER 320 PM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. IT IS NO LONGER IN AFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA...IN OKLAHOMA...OSAGE...WASHINGTON...NOWATA...CRAIG...PAWNEE...TULSA... ROGERS...MAYES...CREEK...OKFUSKEE...OKMULGEE...AND WAGONER COUNTIES. BREEZY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...HOWEVER WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. $$
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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.