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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Norman, OK

May 8, 1997Cotton County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 6:22 PM CDT for Cotton County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1997, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Cotton County, OK

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

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.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
237 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997

MODELS SEEM TO BE IN XCLNT AGRMT ON MAIN FTRS TO AFFECT THE FA OVER
THE NEXT CPL DAYS.  ALL PUSH CDFNT THRU THE FA OVRNT TNGT AND CLEAR
THINGS OUT TMRW FM THE N AND E.  WITH CDFNT ACRS THE AREA THIS EVE
AND LOTS OF LOW LVL MSTR AND INSTABILITY NR AND S OF THE FNT...XPCT
SCT SHRS AND TSTMS TO DVLP MNLY IN THE SRN HALF OF THE FA.  A FEW
STMS MAY GENERATE LARGE HAIL THIS EVE.

GENLY WENT WITH FWC TEMPS XCPT FOR THE SPS AREA TNGT AND TMRW.
NLY FLOW AND LNGRG DAYTIME CLDS WL LKLY KEEP TEMPS THERE ABT 5 TO 10
DEG BLO FWC VALUES.  ON THE OTR HAND...FAN NUMBERS LOOK AWFULLY LOW
FOR TMRW CONSDRG UPSTRM TEMPS AND TIME OF YEAR.

ANTHR CDFNT IS PROGD INTO THE AREA MON AND TUE IN THE EXTDD PDS...ALG
WITH THE USUAL TSTMS.

FCSTID = 23 = CMS

OKC   50  69  45  75 /  30   0   0   0
HBR   49  70  44  76 /  30   0   0   0
SPS   50  68  47  75 /  60  10   0   0
GAG   43  67  42  75 /  10   0   0   0
PNC   45  68  47  75 /  10   0   0   0
DUA   55  72  48  75 /  60  10   0   0

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 12:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 1:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 1:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT... DELAYED REPORT FROM WED MAY 7
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
0140 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 PM    ARAPAHO                   OK  WIND DAMAGE
5/07/97    CUSTER                        LIGHT AND POWER POLES BLOWN
                                         DOWN

BZ

Local storm report, May 8, 4:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
0440 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0427 PM    5 E HOLLIS                OK  1.00 INCH HAIL
5/08/97    HARMON

0435 PM    9 W ALTUS                 OK  1.00 INCH HAIL
05/08/97   JACKSON

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
0520 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0435 PM    7 SE HOLLIS               OK  1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/97   HARMON

0450 PM    3 SSE GOULD               OK  1.00 INCH HAIL
05/08/97   HARMON

0450 PM    15 W CROWELL              TX  0.88 INCH HAIL
05/08/97   FOARD

0503 PM    GOREE                     TX  1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/97   KNOX

0505 PM    6 SW DUKE                 OK  1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/97   JACKSON

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:35 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
0531 PM CDT THU MAY  8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    4.0 S    TIPTON           OK   61.2 MPH WIND GUST, MEASURED
05/08/97   TILLMAN                        OKLAHOMA MESONETWORK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	39 min
May 7, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	41 min
May 7, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	50 min
May 7, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	45 min
May 7, 8:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Grant	3 hr
May 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	60 min
May 7, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	40 min
May 7, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kay	3 hr
May 7, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	53 min
May 7, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	46 min
May 7, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	45 min
May 7, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	43 min
May 7, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	42 min
May 7, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	52 min
May 7, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harmon	51 min
May 7, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Custer, Kiowa, Washita	62 min
May 7, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	62 min
May 7, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	39 min
May 7, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	50 min
May 7, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	62 min
May 7, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Oklahoma	55 min
May 7, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	55 min
May 7, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Noble	3 hr
May 8, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	39 min
May 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	45 min
May 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	46 min
May 8, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	47 min
May 8, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Knox	43 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	45 min
May 8, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	46 min
May 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	40 min

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Sources

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