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Red Flag Warning 33, NWS Norman, OK

October 23, 20225 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Oct 23, 2022, 3:17 AM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
Oct 23, 2022, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 23, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK

Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-10-23Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
4417 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 3:20 AM CDTWind AdvisoryOUNAlfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 15 more20 hr

Nearby

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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.