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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Feb 16, 2022, 3:15 AM CST for 15 counties in Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 16, 2022, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 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
- Feb 16, 2022, 3:15 AM CST (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2022, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 5553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 15, 10:39 PM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 10:39 PM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 9:33 AM CST | Wind Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Garfield, Grant, Kay and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:13 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:13 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OUN | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Kingfisher and 7 more | 24 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.