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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Norman, OK

May 24, 1997Beckham County, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1997, 9:35 PM CDT for Beckham County, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 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 24, 1997, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Beckham County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Angora, 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.

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 24, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 4:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 4:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 9:24 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 9:25 PM CDT, 10 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 24, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	47 min
May 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Roger Mills	49 min
May 24, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	46 min
May 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer	45 min
May 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer	45 min
May 24, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Washita	51 min
May 25, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	46 min
May 25, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	39 min
May 25, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, McClain	45 min
May 25, 7:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	35 min
May 25, 8:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Pushmataha	48 min
May 25, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	52 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	60 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	42 min
May 25, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	65 min
May 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	46 min
May 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	42 min
May 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Garvin, Stephens	60 min
May 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	53 min
May 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady	35 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Stephens	41 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin	68 min
May 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	30 min
May 25, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain, Pontotoc	59 min
May 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Murray	34 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Stephens	45 min
May 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.