Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Norman, OK

June 9, 1997Carter County, Jefferson County, Love County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1997, 9:57 PM CDT for Carter County, Jefferson County, Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 9, 1997, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1997, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carter County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Jun 9, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Jun 9, 9:51 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 9:51 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
810 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

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

620 PM     1 N MILO                  OK   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   CARTER

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
830 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

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

615 PM     4 NE ADA                  OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   PONTOTOC                       1 MOBILE HOME DESTROYED
                                          10 BARNS DESTROYED
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

813x PM     1 NW MARLOW               OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   STEPHENS

817 PM     LAWTON                    OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   COMANCHE

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
830 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

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

615 PM     4 NE ADA                  OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   PONTOTOC                       1 MOBILE HOME DESTROYED
                                          10 BARNS DESTROYED
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

813 PM     1 NW MARLOW               OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   STEPHENS

817 PM     LAWTON                    OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   COMANCHE

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
838 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

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

0825 PM    3S CANEY                  OK   0.75 INCH HAIL.
06/09/97   ATOKA

0835 PM    5N RANDLETT               OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   COTTON

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
838 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

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

0825 PM    3S CANEY                  OK   0.75 INCH HAIL.
06/09/97   ATOKA

0835 PM    5N RANDLETT               OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   COTTON

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
847 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

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

0845 PM    5 SW RANDLETT             OK   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   COTTON

MCCAMMON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	39 min
Jun 9, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	40 min
Jun 9, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	52 min
Jun 9, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	48 min
Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Marshall	45 min
Jun 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	62 min
Jun 9, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	39 min
Jun 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	62 min
Jun 9, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	51 min
Jun 9, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	41 min
Jun 9, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	49 min
Jun 9, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Pushmataha	53 min
Jun 9, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	43 min
Jun 9, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Choctaw	49 min
Jun 9, 9:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Stephens	3 hr
Jun 9, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	43 min
Jun 9, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	50 min
Jun 9, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.