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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Norman, OK

April 23, 1990Woodward County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1990, 9:59 PM CDT for Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1990, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1990, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Woodward 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1405 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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, Apr 23, 7:59 PM CDT, 2 hours before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Kingfisher60 min
Apr 23, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor47 min
Apr 23, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Ellis, Woodward47 min
Apr 23, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills47 min
Apr 23, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Dewey46 min
Apr 23, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills40 min
Apr 23, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor45 min
Apr 23, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Dewey45 min
Apr 24, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher41 min
Apr 24, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher32 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.