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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this high wind watch at Apr 21, 2022, 3:33 AM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 22, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2022, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 22, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2022, 2:40 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 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.
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 20, 8:08 PM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2:53 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 29 more | 52 hr |
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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.