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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS Norman, OK

June 29, 1997Grant County, Kay County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 6:08 PM CDT for Grant County, Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports 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 29, 1997, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1997, 7:05 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wakita, OK	A few power poles were blown down.
Jun 29, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Braman, OK	Several 6-8 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 to 75 mph.

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 29, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 29, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
325 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997

TSTM COMPLEX WHICH MOVED THROUGH SRN KS AND XTRM NRN OK THIS MRNG
LEFT AN OUTFLO BNDRY ACRS NRN OK. BNDRY HAS PRETTY MUCH WASHED OUT IN
NWRN OK BUT SAT AND MESONET STILL SHOW SOME EVIDENCE OF BNDRY IN NCNTRL
OK.. 12Z UA DATA SHOWD WARMER H7 TMPS OVR THE WEST WITH CAP WKNG FRTHR E
INTO OK. MORE TSTMS EXPECTED TO DVLP THIS  AFTN/EVE OVER THE CNTRL HI
PLAINS WITH THIS ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO TRACK E/SEWD. MID LVL TMPS CONTG
TO WARM THRU THE PD. CAP WILL PROBLY BE TOO STG OVR NWRN OK FOR STMS TO
BRK THRU BUT CAP EXPECTED TO BE WKR OVR NCNTRL ZONES AND WILL KEEP POPS
UP THERE. CUD SEE WDLY SCT SHWRS/TSTMS OVR THE SE THIS EVENING WITH VRY
MOIST AMS AND REL WK CAP BUT ANY THAT DVLPS THERE SHUD DIE OUT SHORTLY
AFT SS. STG STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALG SFC BNDRY IN THE TX PANHANDLE THIS
AFTN. THIS ACTIVITY MAY APCH WRN BORDER ZONES BFR DSPTG LATER TONIGHT.
UPR RDG BUILDS OVR THE FA MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WITH WARM MID LVL TMPS
EXPECTED TO SUPPRESS TSTM DVLPMNT. THUS WILL DROP POPS AFTER TONIGHT.
TMPS EXPECTED TO GRDLY WRM..ESP ON TUESDAY AS SFC TROF BEGINS TO MOVE
EWD IN CNTRL PLAINS VEERING LO LVL FLO ACRS FA.

FCSTID = 02
OKC   73  94  74  96 /  20  10  10  10
HBR   73 100  74 102 /  20  10  10  10
SPS   75  98  75 100 /  10  10  10  10
GAG   71  98  72 100 /  20  20  10  10
PNC   75  97  76 100 /  30  30  10  10
DUA   74  93  74  95 /  20  10  10  10

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

In the hours 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
Jun 29, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.