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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Mar 11, 2024, 2:47 AM CDT for Ellis County, Harper County, Woodward County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 11, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. 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
- Mar 11, 2024, 2:47 AM CDT (07:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 3402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 11, 2:36 AM CDT, 11 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.