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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 6, 2016, 1:30 PM CDT for 10 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 6, 2016, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Canadian County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 3010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Jul 6, 12:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 12:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 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.