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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT THURSDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...For both Heat Advisories, heat index values up to 109.

* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, northern, northwest,
southeast, southern, southwest, and western Oklahoma and northern
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* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 9 PM CDT this evening.
For the second Heat Advisory, from noon to 9 PM CDT Thursday.

* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

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Weather Alert

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT THURSDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...For both Heat Advisories, heat index values up to 109.

* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, northern, northwest,
southeast, southern, southwest, and western Oklahoma and northern
Texas.

* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 9 PM CDT this evening.
For the second Heat Advisory, from noon to 9 PM CDT Thursday.

* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

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OU football: 2021 5-star running back Camar Wheaton chooses Alabama over Sooners

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OU football helmet at the Big 12 Media Days on July 16, 2018.

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2021 five-star running back Camar Wheaton verbally committed to Alabama Wednesday evening after listing Oklahoma and the Crimson Tide as his two final schools.

Wheaton is the No. 10 player in the country, per Rivals.com, and would have been the only running back commitment in the Sooners' 2021 class had he landed in Norman. The Garland, Texas, native is also considered the nation’s top 2021 running back and the No. 2 player in Texas.

A Lakeview Centennial High School product, Wheaton received 25 total offers including Florida, Georgia and Ohio State before narrowing his final decision to the Sooners and Alabama. Oklahoma has now lost a top running back recruit to the Crimson Tide in two-straight years following longtime Sooner commit Jase McClellan's flip to Alabama in December 2019.

Wheaton would have joined an OU running back room that currently hosts senior Rhamondre Stevenson, redshirt freshman Marcus Major and freshman Seth McGowan. The group has already lost junior T. J. Pledger to the transfer portal and could lose Stevenson to the NFL, but may also bring back redshirt junior Kennedy Brooks, who opted out of the 2020 season.

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