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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Norman, OK

April 13, 1990Caddo County, Grady County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1990, 7:09 PM CDT for Caddo County, Grady County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1990, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Caddo County, OK, Grady County, OK

The radar

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

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, Apr 13, 1:09 PM CDT, 6 hours before
TXZ019-020-132100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
105 PM CDT FRI MAR 13 1990

...COLD FRONT MOVING TOWARDS WICHITA FALLS...

BY THE START OF THE AFTERNOON HOURS..A COLD FRONT HAD MOVED TO SOUTH
OF GAGE OKLAHOMA AND AMARILLO TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE SOUTH
AND SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH.

THIS COLD FRONT/WIND SHIFT LINE SHOULD APPROACH/PASS THE WICHITA FALLS
AREA AROUND SUNSET. NO PRECIPITATION WAS BEING DETECTED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE RADARS IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS.

HOWEVER...AS THIS CHANCE OF AIRMASS MOVES CLOSER TO THE LOCAL AREA...
THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL FORECAST TO DEVELOP. THE CURRECT OVERCAST
SKIES HAS INHIBITED THE EXPECTED AFTERNOON WARM-UP INTO THE MID 70S
RANGE AND HELD SURFACE WINDS BELOW LAKE WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA.
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 1:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
OKZALL-141200-
OKLAHOMA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
100 PM CDT FRI APR 13 1990

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
   TONIGHT OVER ALL BUT THE PANHANDLE AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA.
   THIS AREA IS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ALVA TO REYDON.

A COLD FRONT MOVED INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING AND AT
MIDDAY WAS ALONG A LINE FROM FREEDOM TO WOODWARD TO ARNETT. GUSTY
SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT HAVE CONTINUED TO BRING INCREASING
MOISTURE TO THE AREA AND WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES
SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE STATE. A DRY LINE DEVLOPING OVER WEST TEXAS IS
EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD AND REACH WESTERN OKLAHOMA BY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON. THE INTERSECTION OF THE DRY LINE WITH THE COLD FRONT IS
EXPECTED TO OCCUR FROM WEST-CENTRAL TO NORTH-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DURING
MAXIMUM HEATING TIME THIS AFTERNOON INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA.
AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING EAST-SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL
PLAINS HAS ALREADY TRIGGERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE COLD FRONT IN
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
SOUTHWESTWARD FROM KANSAS ALONG THE COLD FRONT INTO PORTIONS OF
NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPEMNT IS EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE
THE COLD FRONT AND APPROACHING DRY LINE IN WESTCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
OKLAHOMA. THIS ACTIVITY WILL THEN SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER
OF THE STATE TONIGHT BUT WILL END IN THE WEST AND CENTRAL BEHIND THE
COLD FRONT. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE GREATEST THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS OVER
WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT.

THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OF OKLAHOMA SATURDAY MORNING WITH
DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR SPREADING OVER THE AREA.

CIVL DEFENSE AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN
ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVITATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 3:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
OKZ006-007-008-010-011-012-014-016-017-021-022-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
332 PM CDT FRI APR 13 1990

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ALONG A COLD FRONT FROM
NORTHEASTERN INTO WEST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. AT 330 PM THE LINE STRETCHES
FROM NORTH OF PAWHUSKA TO MARSHALL TO THOMAS. THUNDERSTORMS ON THIS
LINE ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

FURTHER INTENSIFICATION IS EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO
NORTHEASTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... WITH ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT
POSSIBLE SOUTHWESTWARD INTO SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS ARE BEING
MONITORED CLOSELY AND COULD BECOME SEVERE AT ANY TIME. RESIDENTS
THROUGHOUT NORTHEASTERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA ARE ADVISED
TO REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS. A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY FOR A LARGE PART OF
THE STATE EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM.
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 3:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ019-020-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
4 PM CDT FRI MAR 13 1990

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES...ARCHER...BAYLOR...CLAY...
FOARD...HARDEMAN...KNOX...WICHITA AND WILBARGER.

A COLD FRONT/WIND SHIFT LINE WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
AND THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS. A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST OF OKLAHOMA CITY.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

NO THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
OR ALONG THE COLD FRONT IN THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS.

THE COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO AFFECT THE RED RIVER VALLEY
AROUND SUNSET.

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FROM THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IS
EXPECTED TO BE HAIL AND HIGH WIND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAIN SHOULD ALSO BE EXPECTED AS THE ACTIVITY
PASSES YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 4:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ019-020-132300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
5 PM CDT FRI MAR 13 1990

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES...ARCHER...BAYLOR...CLAY...
FOARD...HARDEMAN...KNOX...WICHITA AND WILBARGER.

A COLD FRONT/WIND SHIFT LINE WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
AND THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS. A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED FROM JUST NORTH OF TULSA OKLAHOMA TO 20
NORTHWEST OF OKLAHOMA CITY TO 30 WEST NORTHWEST OF HOBART.

NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LOCATED OVER NORTH WEST TEXAS AT THIS TIME.

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THIS EVENING.. SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS COME
THROUGH THISk AREA.. IS FOR HAIL..HIGH WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 5:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.