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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Norman, OK

March 15, 202321 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2023, 3:40 AM CDT for 21 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 15, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2023, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2023, 9:34 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 21 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Mar 14, 10:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 10:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

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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.