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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Norman, OK

May 17, 1993Jackson County, Kiowa County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT for Jackson County, Kiowa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK

The radar

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The text

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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.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 17, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 172009

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
310 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1993

TSTMS HAV DVLPD NE OF MAF AND SHUD CONT TO MOV NEWD.  XPCT TSTMS TO DVLP
OVR ERN TX SOPLNS AND ERN TX PNHDL NR SFC TROF. ALSO XPCT TSTMS TO DVLP
ALG CDFNT. TSTMS FIRING ALG SFC BNDRYS WL BE ENHANCED BY SIG S/W OVR NM
MOVG EWD.

AFT S/W GOES BY LT TUE WX SHUD BE RATHER CALM AS HI PRES BLDS OVR THE
PLAINS IN NWLY FLO ALOFT.

PRELIM NBRS

OKC 60/77/57/79 9610  GAG 58/75/55/75 9610  HBR 60/79/57/80 9610
PNC 59/76/57/79 9610  SPS 63/84/58/79 9610  DUA 66/86/59/80 9620

20

.OK...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 1:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 1:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
505 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1993

TIME                 COUNTY          EVENT

420 PM               WOODS           DIME SIZE HAIL 3 MILES EAST AND 4.5
                                       MILES SOUTH OF AVARD

442 PM               KNOX, TX        DIME SIZE HAIL AND BRANCHES BLOWN
                                       OFF OF TREES IN KNOX CITY

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Local storm report, May 17, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
505 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1993

TIME                 COUNTY          EVENT

420 PM               WOODS           DIME SIZE HAIL 3 MILES EAST AND 4.5
                                       MILES SOUTH OF AVARD

442 PM               KNOX, TX        DIME SIZE HAIL AND BRANCHES BLOWN
                                       OFF OF TREES IN KNOX CITY

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Local storm report, May 17, 6:37 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 6:40 PM CDT, 21 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 17, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	39 min
May 17, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	47 min
May 17, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Major, Roger Mills, Woodward	62 min
May 17, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	62 min
May 17, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay	62 min
May 17, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	62 min
May 17, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	58 min
May 17, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	24 min
May 17, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	28 min
May 17, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	38 min
May 17, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	52 min
May 17, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	52 min
May 17, 9:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	4 hr
May 17, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	32 min
May 17, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.