Alert archive / Oklahoma / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 17, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2016, 3:08 AM CDT for 16 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 6, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 6, 2016, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Craig County, OK, Creek 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, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 3049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
104 WWUS84 KTSA 060808 RFWTSA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 308 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... OKZ054>057-059>062-064>067-070-071-062200- /O.UPG.KTSA.FW.A.0013.160406T1600Z-160407T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KTSA.FW.W.0017.160406T1600Z-160407T0100Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-MAYES-CREEK- OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-WAGONER-MUSKOGEE-MCINTOSH- 308 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR VERY DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * WIND...NORTHWEST WIND GUSTING 30 TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURE...HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... && 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
364 WWUS84 KTSA 061636 RFWTSA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1136 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... OKZ073>075-070100- /O.EXA.KTSA.FW.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160407T0100Z/ PITTSBURG-HASKELL-LATIMER- 1136 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR VERY DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WIND...NORTHWEST WIND GUSTING 30 TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURE...HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND DRY VEGETATION IS EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS...FAVORING RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ANY WILDFIRES. THE PRIMARY WEATHER FACTORS INCLUDE STRONGER WINDS...LOWER HUMIDITIES...AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. && $$ OKZ054>057-059>062-064>067-070-071-070100- /O.CON.KTSA.FW.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160407T0100Z/ OSAGE-WASHINGTON-NOWATA-CRAIG-PAWNEE-TULSA-ROGERS-MAYES-CREEK- OKFUSKEE-OKMULGEE-WAGONER-MUSKOGEE-MCINTOSH- 1136 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR VERY DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WIND...NORTHWEST WIND GUSTING 30 TO 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURE...HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. && 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. && $$
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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.