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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Norman, OK

March 2, 1997Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1997, 1:58 PM CST for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 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: Mar 2, 1997, 1:58 PM CST (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 1997, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Pushmataha County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 2, 2:00 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Cloudy, OK
Mar 2, 2:20 PM CST	Hail 1	Fewell, OK

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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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 Mar 2, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 021628
AFDOKC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1030 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997

LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES UPR LOW BETWEEN GRK AND BSM...WITH
UPR TROF EXTENDING NORTH FROM LOW TO SOUTH CENTRAL OK. SCT -SHRA
CONTINUES ACRS SRN 1/3 OF FA. EXPECT PRECIP TO SLOWLY DECREASE ACROSS
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ZNS THIS AFTN...AS UPR SYSTEM MOVES EAST. WL
MAKE COSMETIC CHANGES AS NEEDED.

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

CB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 2, 1:56 PM CST, 2 minutes 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
Mar 2, 1:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	30 min
Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Choctaw, Pushmataha	45 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.