Alert archive / Oklahoma / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this red flag warning at Jan 29, 2016, 12:03 PM CST for 22 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
- Jan 29, 2016, 12:03 PM CST (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
All 22 counties
Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
292 WWUS84 KTSA 291803 RFWTSA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1203 PM CST FRI JAN 29 2016 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... .WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY...WHICH WILL LEAD TO VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER AND POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL FIRE BEHAVIOR. OKZ054-055-059-060-064>066-071-073-300000- /O.UPG.KTSA.FW.A.0001.000000T0000Z-160130T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KTSA.FW.W.0001.160129T1803Z-160130T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-PAWNEE-TULSA-CREEK-OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-MCINTOSH- PITTSBURG- 1203 PM CST FRI JAN 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR VERY DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...PAWNEE...TULSA...CREEK...OKFUSKEE...OKMULGEE...MCINTOSH...AND PITTSBURG COUNTIES. * WIND...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURE...65 TO 75 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND DRY VEGETATION IS EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS...FAVORING RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ANY WILDFIRES. THE PRIMARY WEATHER FACTORS INCLUDE STRONGER WINDS...LOWER HUMIDITIES...AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. && $$
1 follow-up statement
100 WWUS84 KTSA 291835 RFWTSA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1235 PM CST FRI JAN 29 2016 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... .WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY...WHICH WILL LEAD TO VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER AND POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL FIRE BEHAVIOR. OKZ049-053-056>058-061>063-067>070-074-075-300000- /O.EXA.KTSA.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160130T0000Z/ PUSHMATAHA-CHOCTAW-NOWATA-CRAIG-OTTAWA-ROGERS-MAYES-DELAWARE- WAGONER-CHEROKEE-ADAIR-MUSKOGEE-HASKELL-LATIMER- 1235 PM CST FRI JAN 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR VERY DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. * WIND...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...BETWEEN 15 AND 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURE...65 TO 75 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND DRY VEGETATION IS EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS...FAVORING RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ANY WILDFIRES. THE PRIMARY WEATHER FACTORS INCLUDE STRONGER WINDS...LOWER HUMIDITIES...AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. && $$ OKZ054-055-059-060-064>066-071-073-300000- /O.CON.KTSA.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160130T0000Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON OK-PAWNEE-TULSA-CREEK-OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-MCINTOSH- PITTSBURG- 1235 PM CST FRI JAN 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR VERY DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA... * AFFECTED AREA...MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. * WIND...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...BETWEEN 15 AND 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURE...65 TO 75 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND DRY VEGETATION IS EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS...FAVORING RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ANY WILDFIRES. THE PRIMARY WEATHER FACTORS INCLUDE STRONGER WINDS...LOWER HUMIDITIES...AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. && $$ 16
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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.