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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 2, 2020, 10:18 AM CDT for 14 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 10 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
- Jul 2, 2020, 10:18 AM CDT (15:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2020, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 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, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jul 2, 6:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 10:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 11:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 11:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 11:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 12:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 12:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 1:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 1:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee, Wagoner | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 2:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison, Washington | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 32 min |
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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.