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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Norman, OK

March 30, 202337 counties in Oklahoma; 7 counties in Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind advisory at Mar 30, 2023, 2:46 AM CDT for 37 counties in Oklahoma; 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 31, 2023, 8:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2023, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 31, 2023, 8:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 31, 2023, 7:01 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 44 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, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson 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, 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, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 2172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 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 29, 10:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 10:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 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
Mar 30, 2:47 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more	43 hr
Mar 30, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Murray, Pottawatomie	25 min
Mar 30, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray	29 min
Mar 30, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	31 min
Mar 30, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	29 min
Mar 30, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	31 min
Mar 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	32 min
Mar 30, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	31 min
Mar 30, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	25 min

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.