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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Norman, OK

April 12, 1991Carter County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 1991, 6:06 PM CDT for Carter County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 12, 1991, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1991, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Carter County, OK

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 tornado 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 12, 3:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 12, 5:08 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
506 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY          REPORT

445 PM       ALFALFA         ONE INCH DIAMTER HAIL AT GOLTRY.
Local storm report, Apr 12, 5:21 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
519 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY          REPORT

518 PM       KINGFISHER      TORNADO 5 SOUTH OF KINGFISHER AND TWO INCH
                             HAIL 1 SOUTH OF KINGFISHER...FROM COUNTY
                             CIVIL DEFENSE.
Local storm report, Apr 12, 5:57 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
557 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991

TIME(CDT)    COUNTY          REPORT

552 PM       CARTER          GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTH OF LONE

                     GROVE...FROM THE CARTER COUNTY CIVIL
                             DEFENSE.
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 5:58 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
550 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES HARDEMAN...FOARD...KNOX...WILBARGER...BAYLOR...
WICHITA AND COTTON COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA...

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES CLAY...MONTAGUE...JACK...ARCHER AND YOUNG...

ISOLATED RAINSHOWERS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE LAST HOUR OVER PORTIONS OF
JACK...YOUNG...AND BAYLOR COUNTIES.

SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO
AFFECT PORTIONS OF HOOD AND SUMERWELL COUNTIES NEAR GLEN ROSE.
A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED ON THE GROUND FROM THIS STORM. MOVEMENT
OF THE THUNDERSTORM WAS SLOWLY TOWARDS THE EAST.

ELSEWHERE...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING SOUTHWEST OF
ARDMORE OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SYNOPTIC SITUATION CONTINUES TO IMPLY A HIGH PROBABILITY OF
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE
NEXT 12 HOURS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove45 min
Apr 11, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Murray40 min
Apr 11, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie50 min
Apr 11, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Pottawatomie44 min
Apr 11, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNChoctaw54 min
Apr 11, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln46 min
Apr 11, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha47 min
Apr 12, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine25 min
Apr 12, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Major46 min
Apr 12, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo41 min
Apr 12, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo47 min
Apr 12, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor43 min
Apr 12, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian51 min
Apr 12, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor32 min
Apr 12, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield27 min
Apr 12, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine43 min
Apr 12, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield30 min
Apr 12, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher51 min
Apr 12, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Kiowa48 min
Apr 12, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant52 min
Apr 12, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Grant47 min
Apr 12, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKingfisher44 min
Apr 12, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher60 min
Apr 12, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKingfisher41 min
Apr 12, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Love68 min
Apr 12, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant63 min
Apr 12, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKingfisher26 min
Apr 12, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKingfisher36 min
Apr 12, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward41 min
Apr 12, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield60 min

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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.