Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 11:11 PM CDT for Alfalfa County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 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 15, 1997, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
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 15, 9:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 9:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 920 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 FNT PUSHING TOWARD THE NWRN CORNER OF OK AND A NARROW LN OF TSTMS AHEAD OF IT HAS MOVED INTO HARPER AND ELLIS COUNTIES ATTM. OTHER TSTMS IN SWRN TX CUD PSBLY APRCH SWRN COUNTIES BEFORE DABRK. WL UPDATE TO SHOVE PCPN CHCS TO LATER TNGT AND PSBLY LOWER POPS SOME AREAS...THO ALL IN ALL STILL LOOKS LIKE A WET PD IN THE NEXT 24-36 HOURS. FCSTID = 12 .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 10:15 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woodward | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pushmataha | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 51 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.