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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Tulsa, OK

December 10, 2017Nowata County, Pawnee County, Washington County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this fire weather watch at Dec 10, 2017, 3:10 PM CST for Nowata County, Pawnee County, Washington County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Dec 11, 2017, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 10, 2017, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 11, 2017, 11:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 11, 2017, 3:16 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Nowata County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2017-12-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2017-12-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.