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Fire Weather Watch 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this fire weather watch at Mar 14, 2016, 3:22 AM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 15, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2016, 3:22 AM CDT (08:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2016, 3:09 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Mar 13, 6:28 PM CDT, 8 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 6:28 PM CDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 3:04 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 14, 3:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa and 5 more | 28 hr |
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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.