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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this high wind watch at Apr 8, 2019, 3:58 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Knox County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 10, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2019, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2019, 3:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 2763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 8, 12:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 12:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:52 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OUN | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 8 more | 18 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Oklahoma, 2019High Wind Watches in Texas, 2019Every high wind watch in 2019
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.