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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2024, 3:51 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma. 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
- Apr 5, 2024, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2024, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 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.
NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Apr 5, 2:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 2:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:32 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 32 more | 31 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:49 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Custer and 13 more | 33 hr |
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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.