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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Norman, OK

May 14, 1986Atoka County, Bryan County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 11:45 PM CDT for Atoka County, Bryan County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1986, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1986, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 9:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
852 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 162 WHICH COVERED PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
UNTIL 9 PM HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA:

TILLMAN COMANCHE STEPHENS JEFFERSON COTTON AND GARVIN.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING IN THE FORT SILL TO FREDERICK AREA
AND ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD OUT OF SOUTHWEST OKLAzHOMA BY 11 PM.

Local storm report, May 14, 9:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

KOKC 131716

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
930 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986

REPORTS FOR TODAY WEDNESDAY MAY 14, 1986

TIME       COUNTY              EVENT

1128 AM     CANADIAN           DIME SIZE HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF EL RENO

1115 AM     OKLAHOMA           NICKLE SIZE HAIL WARR ACRES

1135 AM     OKLAHOMA           DIME SIZE HAIL 1 BLOCK EAST OF OVERHOLSER
                               DAM AND NICKLE SIZE AT PENN SQUARE.

1140 AM     OKLAHOMA           DIME SIZE HAIL HEIFNER LAKE

1150 AM     OKLAHOMA           DIME SIZE HAIL AT EDMOND ROAD AND WESTERN
.
1150 AM     CADDO            GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTH OF HYDRO

1158 AM     WOODWARD         3/4 INCH HAIL AT WOODWARD

1205 PM     LOGAN            DIME SIZE HAIL 4 SOUTH OF GUTHRIE

1212 PM     LOGAN            DIME SIZE HAIL AT CRESENT

1102 AM     ELLIS            3/4 INCH HAIL BETWEEN 1102 THRU 1118

1241 PM     WOODS            GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3 EAST OF WAYNOKA

114 PM     CANADIAN         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 8 WEST OF EL RENO

130 PM     WOODS            50 KT/58 MPH WINDS AT ALVA AIRPORT

150 PM     KIOWA            1/2 HAIL AT HOBART

202 PM     HARMON           GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT HOLLIS

216 PM     HARMON           2 INCH HAIL AT HOLLIS

225 PM     CANADIAN         PENNY SIZE HAIL IN WESTERN MUSTANG
.
234 PM     CANADIAN            1 INCH HAIL AT MUSTANG

237 PM     LOGAN               DIME SIZE HAIL AT GUTHRIE

258 PM     OKLAHOMA            QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT BRITTON AND TRIPLE X
                               ROADS

300 PM     CADDO               DIME SIZE HAIL AT ANADARKO

305 PM     OKLAHOMA            TORNADO DESTROYED BARN AT NE 63RD AND
                               PEEBLY ROAD

309 PM     GRADY               DIME SIZE HAIL 6 SOUTH OF CHICKASHA

312 PM     OKLAHOMA            4 MILE NORTHWEST OF HARRAH TORNADO
                               OBSERVED ABOUT 1/2 MILE TO THE WEST

322 PM     JACKSON             1 AND 1/2 INCH HAIL AT ALTUS AFB

343 PM     GRADY               DIME SIZE HAIL 7 NW OF CHICKASHA

348 PM     GRADY               DIME SIZE HAIL 8 WEST OF MINCO
.
401 PM      OKLAHOMA           DIME SIZE HAIL IN OKLAHOMA CITY

407 PM      GRADY              1 INCH HAIL AT MINCO

413 PM      KIOWA              TORNADO 1 SOUTH OF SNYDER AND
                               GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN SNYDER
                               TRAILER FLIPPED, POWER LINES DOWN

428 PM      TILLMAN            TORNADO 5 SE OF SNYDER

430 PM      WASHITA            GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN CORDELL

454 PM      CLEVELAND          NICKLE HAIL NW ANS SW OF NORMAN

458 PM      CLEVELAND          60 MPH WIND, TREE DAMAGE N OF LAKE
                               THUNDERBIRD

510 PM      JACKSON            2 N OF HWY 62 ON HWY 54 100 YARD WIDE
                               TORNADO TRACK SNAPPED UTILITY POLES

523 PM      CLEVELAND          60 MPH WINDS AND 1 INCH HAIL IN NORMAN
527 PM      COMANCHE           FUNNEL CLOUD 1/8 MILE NW OF FORT SILL

550 PM      COMANCHE           GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR FLETCHER

609 PM      TILLMAN/KIOWA      GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND LARGER 14 MILES
                               E OF ALTUS

Special weather statement, May 14, 9:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 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
May 14, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin	30 min
May 14, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	65 min
May 14, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	57 min
May 14, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	57 min
May 14, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	39 min
May 14, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa	65 min
May 14, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	65 min
May 14, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	53 min
May 14, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston	59 min
May 14, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	59 min
May 14, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	55 min
May 14, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Grady	65 min
May 14, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	65 min
May 14, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson	31 min
May 14, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	55 min
May 14, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	47 min
May 14, 9:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan	2 hr
May 14, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	29 min
May 14, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	47 min
May 14, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston	47 min
May 14, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	61 min
May 14, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	42 min
May 14, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	42 min
May 15, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	41 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.