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Excessive Heat Warning 3, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 11, 2016, 2:15 PM CDT for 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 11, 2016, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 11, 1:16 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:16 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 11:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1153 AM CDT THU AUG 11 2016 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-121700- HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD- NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE- BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN- CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON- TILLMAN-COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON- JEFFERSON-CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN- FOARD-WILBARGER-WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY- 1153 AM CDT THU AUG 11 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... .THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM KANSAS. GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL THAT COULD CAUSE FLOODING ARE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .HEAT... A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE EASTERN TWO- THIRDS OF OKLAHOMA. HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 TO 110 ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... .THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN TEXAS WHEN A COLD FRONT PASSES. GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL THAT COULD CAUSE FLOODING ARE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MOST DAYS DURING THE NEXT WEEK. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. MAHALE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2:55 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Hughes, Johnston and 8 more | 27 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harper | 38 min |
| Aug 11, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harper | 29 min |
| Aug 11, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.