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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 484, NWS Norman, OK

September 13, 1997Grady County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 1997, 6:18 PM CDT for Grady County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 13, 1997, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
42 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 23:20 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 Sep 13, 2:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 2:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
207 PM CDT SAT SEP 13 1997

THE MID-LEVEL TROUGH THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AREA OF SHOWERS
ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA IS NOT MOVING VERY QUICKLY ACROSS THE STATE.
WATER VAPOR AND WIND PROFILER INFORMATION INDICATE THAT THE FEATURE
RANGES FROM NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA TO THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.  THIS WILL BE THE REASON FOR A CONTINUE CHANCE
OF SHOWERS INTO THE EVENING TO THE SOUTH OF THIS FEATURE.  AS IT
LEAVES THE STATE LATER TONIGHT, MID-LEVEL SUBSIDENCE AND THE LACK OF
ANY SURFACE LIFTING FEATURE SHOULD KEEP SUNDAY RAIN-FREE.  HOWEVER,
ANOTHER MID/UPPER LEVEL FEATURE, APPARENT IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY OVER
THE SOUTHWEST U.S. WILL LIKELY MOVE NORTHEAST OVER THE BUILDING
EASTERN ROCKIES RIDGE SUNDAY BUT HAVE SOME INFLUENCE IN NORTHERN
OKLAHOMA BY SUNDAY EVENING.  AS THE SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THIS TROUGH
MOVES THROUGH THE STATE ON MONDAY, A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS
WILL EXIST IN MOST AREAS.

FCSTID = 9
OKC   69  91  70  90 /  20   0  10  20
HBR   67  94  68  93 /  20   0  20  20
SPS   71  96  73  94 /  20   0  10  20
GAG   66  93  67  89 /   0   0  30  20
PNC   70  92  70  88D /  10  10  30  30
DUA   69  91  71  90 /  20   0  10  20

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Major47 min
Sep 13, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka35 min
Sep 13, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey49 min
Sep 13, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Bryan30 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.