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Heat Advisory 20, NWS Norman, OK

August 23, 202128 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this heat advisory at Aug 23, 2021, 2:36 PM CDT for 28 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Aug 24, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 2021, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 24, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 24, 2021, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 28 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 360 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2091 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 22, 3:57 PM CDT, 22 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 3:57 PM CDT, 22 hours 39 minutes before

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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.