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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Norman, OK

April 21, 202235 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind advisory at Apr 21, 2022, 2:53 PM CDT for 35 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 22, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 2022, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 22, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 23, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 43 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 21, 1:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 1:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 3:33 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	23 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.