Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT for Noble County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 17, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Noble County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1936 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 Jul 17, 8:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 8:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 850 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997 TSTMS FIRED UP ONCE AGAIN IN ASSOCIATION WITH MCV OVER NORTHEAST OK. A FEW OF THE STORMS HAVE DRIFTED INTO EASTERN NOBLE AND PAYNE COUNTIES AND WILL LIKELY PROGRESS INTO LINCOLN COUNTY SHORTLY. QUICK LOOK AT ZNS SHOWS EVERYTHING IS IN GOOD SHAPE FOR NOW SO WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES. WILL NEED TO UPDATE LATER TO REMOVE MIDNIGHT WORDING FROM NORTH CENTRAL OK ZNS. FCSTID = 17/MMT .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 17, 8:33 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED HAIL SIZE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
835 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM 3 ESE GLENCOE OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/97 PAYNE
JSLocal storm report, Jul 17, 8:35 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED HAIL SIZE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
835 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM 3 ESE GLENCOE OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/97 PAYNE
JSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble, Payne | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Payne | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble, Payne | 55 min |
| Jul 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 1:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 30 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.