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Wind Advisory 30, NWS Norman, OK

December 21, 202241 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind advisory at Dec 21, 2022, 2:30 PM CST for 41 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 22, 2022, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 21, 2022, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 22, 2022, 3:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 22, 2022, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 49 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin 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, Love County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole 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 radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 303 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: 1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 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 Dec 21, 11:51 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 21, 11:51 AM CST, 2 hours 39 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
Dec 21, 3:46 AM CST	Wind Chill Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 16 more	56 hr
Dec 21, 3:46 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 20 more	56 hr
Dec 21, 5:53 AM CST	Freezing Fog Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 32 more	6 hr
Dec 21, 2:37 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 42 more	25 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.