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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Norman, OK

March 17, 1986Cotton County, Stephens County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1986, 9:10 PM CST for Cotton County, Stephens County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 17, 1986, 9:10 PM CST (03:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 1986, 9:35 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cotton County, OK, Stephens 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Mar 17, 4:38 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
 430 PM CST MON MAR 17

 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORMING IN WESTERN NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 415PM THIS AFTERNOON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FORMING WEST OF
WICHITA FALLS FROM CHILDRESS TO CROWELL. DEVELOPMENT OF THESE STORMS
WERE RAPID AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT WITH A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..
VERY GUSTY WIND..HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDER-
STORMS.

MONITER YOUR RADIO..TELEVISION..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR INFORMATION
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 6:32 PM CST, 2 hours 38 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 17, 6:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Washita	38 min
Mar 17, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	45 min
Mar 17, 7:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods	48 min
Mar 17, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	43 min
Mar 17, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	43 min
Mar 17, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	48 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.