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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Norman, OK

May 7, 1993Beckham County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1993, 8:13 PM CDT for Beckham County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1993, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1993, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Beckham County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Sayre, OK

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 5:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 5:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 6:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 6:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 7:55 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 7:59 PM CDT, 14 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 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	43 min
May 7, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	40 min
May 7, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	51 min
May 7, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	38 min
May 7, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Washita	51 min
May 7, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	41 min
May 7, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Ellis	3 hr
May 7, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	52 min
May 7, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	36 min
May 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	51 min
May 7, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	47 min
May 7, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	41 min
May 7, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kay, Noble	47 min
May 7, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	47 min
May 7, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	33 min
May 7, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Logan, Oklahoma	40 min
May 7, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	40 min
May 7, 11:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kay	3 hr
May 7, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	54 min
May 7, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Oklahoma	45 min
May 8, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	44 min
May 8, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	52 min
May 8, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	44 min
May 8, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	39 min
May 8, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	53 min
May 8, 7:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	44 min
May 8, 9:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Kiowa	4 hr
May 8, 9:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Washita	4 hr
May 8, 12:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Kiowa, Washita	4 hr
May 8, 1:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	3 hr
May 8, 1:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady	32 min
May 8, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	48 min
May 8, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	53 min
May 8, 2:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	3 hr
May 8, 2:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	3 hr
May 8, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	40 min
May 8, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	3 hr
May 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	62 min
May 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	56 min
May 8, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	54 min
May 8, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	54 min
May 8, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	48 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	62 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	62 min
May 8, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	45 min
May 8, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	59 min
May 8, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cotton	25 min
May 8, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson	67 min
May 8, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Stephens	62 min
May 8, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	3 hr
May 8, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady	39 min
May 8, 5:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
May 8, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson	39 min
May 8, 6:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	2 hr
May 8, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	44 min
May 8, 6:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Grady	2 hr
May 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	40 min
May 8, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson	63 min
May 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	42 min
May 8, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter	37 min
May 7, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	45 min
May 8, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	42 min
May 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer	47 min
May 8, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	39 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita	28 min
May 8, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	53 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	3 hr
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Baylor	3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.