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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Jan 18, 2023, 2:53 AM CST for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 18, 2023, 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
- Jan 18, 2023, 2:53 AM CST (08:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 18, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Tillman 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 Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 2693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.