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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Norman, OK

February 27, 202318 counties in Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Knox County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2023, 2:27 PM CST for 18 counties in Oklahoma; Foard County, Hardeman County, Knox County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 28, 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: Feb 27, 2023, 2:27 PM CST (20:27 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 28, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 28, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 21 counties

Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 1987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 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 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 27, 2:16 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 2:16 PM CST, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 3:17 AM CST, 11 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 27, 8:36 AM CST, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 8:49 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 10:21 AM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 10:29 AM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 10:46 AM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 10:51 AM CST, 3 hours 36 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
Feb 26, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	46 min
Feb 26, 6:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper	46 min
Feb 26, 6:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	15 min
Feb 26, 6:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	23 min
Feb 26, 6:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	35 min
Feb 26, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods	41 min
Feb 26, 6:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills	52 min
Feb 26, 7:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	30 min
Feb 26, 7:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills and 1 more	42 min
Feb 26, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	25 min
Feb 26, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	36 min
Feb 26, 7:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Kiowa, Washita	51 min
Feb 26, 7:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harmon, Jackson, Tillman	46 min
Feb 26, 7:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer and 7 more	42 min
Feb 26, 7:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Kiowa	50 min
Feb 26, 7:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills and 2 more	47 min
Feb 26, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	44 min
Feb 26, 8:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman	54 min
Feb 26, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer, Dewey and 6 more	49 min
Feb 26, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 3 more	48 min
Feb 26, 8:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Caddo	20 min
Feb 26, 8:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	19 min
Feb 26, 8:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	39 min
Feb 26, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 6 more	45 min
Feb 26, 8:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	14 min
Feb 26, 8:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	23 min
Feb 26, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson	42 min
Feb 26, 9:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	31 min
Feb 26, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 3 more	39 min
Feb 26, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	31 min
Feb 26, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	17 min
Feb 26, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma	48 min
Feb 26, 9:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	17 min
Feb 26, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay	30 min
Feb 26, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	45 min
Feb 26, 9:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	38 min
Feb 26, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Hughes, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, Pontotoc and 2 more	48 min
Feb 26, 9:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	33 min
Feb 26, 9:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Jefferson, Johnston and 5 more	44 min
Feb 26, 9:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble	42 min
Feb 26, 9:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, Seminole	39 min
Feb 26, 9:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	36 min
Feb 26, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	48 min
Feb 26, 10:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Lincoln	15 min
Feb 26, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Lincoln, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	45 min
Feb 26, 10:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc and 2 more	44 min
Feb 26, 10:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	14 min
Feb 26, 10:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kay	17 min
Feb 26, 10:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes	38 min
Feb 26, 10:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan, Marshall	36 min
Feb 26, 11:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	26 min
Feb 26, 7:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger	42 min
Feb 26, 8:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	45 min

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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.