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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Norman, OK

June 12, 1997Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1997, 10:56 PM CDT for Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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: Jun 12, 1997, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1997, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Woods County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 12, 11:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Alva, OK	measured at the Oklahoma Mesonet site

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
Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 2412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.8

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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 12, 9:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 130245
AFDOKC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
945 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997

WE HAVE TWO AREAS OF SVR THUNDERSTORMS ACRS THE FCST AREA THIS EVENING.
A SMALLER ONE OVER THE N TX CNTYS WITH SVR WX CONFINED MAINLY TO
BAYLOR...WICHITA AND ARCHER CNTYS. A LARGER AREA OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IS CURRENTLY OVER NORTHWEST OK WITH THE STMS INHERITED FM
THE TX PNHDL. THIS AREA SEEMS LIKE IT IS DVLPG INTO AN MCS WITH UPR
60/LWR 70 DEG DWPTS AND LLJ FEEDING INTO IT. UPR S/WV OVR NE NMEX AND
JET MAX HEADED THIS WAY WILL ONLY AID FURTHER TSTM DVLPMT.

DID AN UPDATE ARND 9 PM TO ADD A FEW SVR STMS TO CNTL ZNS WITH HI
DWPT AIRMASS STAYING OVR THE AREA. TEMPS AND WINDS LOOK GOOD FOR NOW SO
WL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES

FCSTID =  17/MMT

.OKC...
OK...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 AM ZNS 009>011-014>016-021-022-033>037.
TX...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 AM ZNS 083>089.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
905 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997

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

0832 PM    LAKE KICKAPOO             TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/97   ARCHER

0840 PM    1 NW IOWA PARK            TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/12/97   WICHITA

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:08 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
1008 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997

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

0950 PM    1 SW BUFFALO              OK   58 MPH WIND GUST, MEASURED
06/12/97   HARPER                         OKLAHOMA MESONETWORK

Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:13 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
1008 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997

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

0950 PM    1 SW BUFFALO              OK   58 MPH WIND GUST, MEASURED
06/12/97   HARPER                         OKLAHOMA MESONETWORK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	47 min
Jun 12, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	55 min
Jun 12, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	65 min
Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	40 min
Jun 12, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	40 min
Jun 12, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	40 min
Jun 12, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	45 min
Jun 12, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woodward	52 min
Jun 12, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	45 min
Jun 12, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Washita	64 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	48 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	48 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	48 min
Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Kiowa, Washita	43 min
Jun 13, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Kingfisher, Logan, McClain and 1 more	65 min
Jun 13, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	40 min
Jun 13, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	42 min
Jun 13, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	48 min
Jun 13, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	41 min
Jun 13, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	37 min
Jun 13, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	32 min
Jun 13, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	48 min
Jun 13, 3:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	37 min
Jun 13, 3:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	3 hr
Jun 13, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Marshall	25 min
Jun 13, 4:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	42 min
Jun 13, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Marshall	46 min
Jun 13, 4:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	42 min
Jun 13, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	50 min
Jun 13, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Choctaw	51 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	49 min
Jun 13, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	48 min
Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	42 min
Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	46 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	46 min
Jun 12, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	40 min
Jun 12, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	64 min
Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	63 min
Jun 12, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer	27 min
Jun 12, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Archer	3 hr
Jun 12, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.