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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 405, NWS Norman, OK

August 13, 1997Grady County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1997, 9:29 PM CDT for Grady County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 13, 1997, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grady County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 13, 3:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 3:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 132030
AFDOKC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
330 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

STNRY FNT FM SRN AR ACRS NRN TX APRS TO BE BREAKING DOWN AND ITS REMAINS
WL PRBLY MOVE NWD AS A WRM FNT TNGT AND THU. MEANWHILE A FAIRLY VIG (FOR
AUG) S/W FCST TO CROSS THE FA TNGT AND FRI. TSTMS HV ALREADY BROKEN OUT
ALG AND JUST TO THE N OF THE FNT THRU NRN TX THIS AFTN  WHILE SOME
SPRINKLES FM MID LVL CLDS LINGER IN W CNTRL OK. WL GO WITH FIRST PD POPS
RANGING FM 50 PCT IN THE SOUTH TO 20 IN THE N TNGT AND THEN GRDLY END
PCPN FM W TO E FRI AND FRI NGT. WL MENTION PSBLTY OF LCLY HVR RAINS IN
SERN OK ZONES TNGT. WL TREND TWD THE WRMR FWC TEMPS.

FCSTID = 12
OKC   70  91  72  94 /  30  20  20  10
HBR   70  93  71  96 /  30  20  20  10
SPS   73  94  74  97 /  50  30  30  10
GAG   67  92  70  95 /  20  20  20  10
PNC   69  92  74  96 /  20  20  20  10
DUA   73  94  75  95 /  50  40  30  20

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.