Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Norman, OK

May 7, 1997Beckham County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1997, 9:07 PM CDT for Beckham County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min. 5 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
May 7, 1997, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Beckham County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 7, 9:15 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 69Erick, OKSevere thunderstorm winds up to 79 mph caused extensive damage throughout Erick. Numerous signs, utility poles, and trees were broken in and around town, including 30 utility poles that were downed.
May 7, 9:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 69Erick, OKmeasured at the Oklahoma Mesonet site
May 7, 9:30 PM CDTThunderstorm WindSayre, OKSevere thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off of the Sayre elementary school library. Winds also uprooted large trees and downed at least one utility pole in town. Reports of more minor tree and roof damage were widepsread across Sayre.
May 7, 9:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56Erick, OKmeasured at the Oklahoma Mesonet site
May 7, 9:45 PM CDTThunderstorm WindElk City, OKSevere thunderstorm winds in Elk City blew the roof off of one business and blew eight overhead doors out of several other businesses. On the edge of town an 11,000 pound tank trailer was blown onto its side and into a fence. Countless trees and limbs were sn

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 7, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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 May 7, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
330 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

SFC FNT THIS AFTN STRETCHING FROM N CNTRL KS INTO NWRN TX PANHANDLE.
THIN LINE OF CU NOW SHOWING UP ON SAT ALG THE BNDRY. WINDS HAVE
STARTED TO BACK AHD OF THE FRNT THE PAST FEW HOURS WITH WITH
CONVERGENCENCE INCRSG ALG THE BNDRY. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO DVLP ALG THE FNT
LATE THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT THEN MOVE EWD ACRS THE FA. VRY UNSTABLE
AMS IN PLACE AHD OF THE FRONT. ALSO GOOD TURNING INDICATED IN THE WIND
PROFILE ALTHO THE SPEEDS ARE NOT REAL STG. SO WILL MENTION POSSBL SEVERE
IN MOST ZONES GRPS. ANOTHER AREA OF DVLPMNT MAY BE FRTHR S INTO THE TX
PANHANDLE BETWEEN AMA AND CDS. ANY ACTIVITY DVLPG THERE WUD MOVE INTO SW
 OK W TX ZONES. WL SPREAD HI POPS ACRS THE FA FOR TONIGHT WITH SOMEWHAT
LOWER POPS IN THE SE DUE TO THE UNCERTAINITY IN IN WHEN ACTIVITY MAY
REACH THERE. FNT MOVES INTO THE FA OVERNIGHT AND PUSHES THRU THE SE
DURING THE DAY FRIDAY PRETTY MUCH ENDING THE THRT OF FRTHR TSTM
ACTIVITY.

02

OKC   58  71  49  73 /  70  30  10  10
HBR   55  72  47  75 /  60  20  10  10
SPS   61  75  51  71 /  60  30  10  10
GAG   50  72  41  74 /  60  10  10  10
PNC   54  73  46  74 /  70  30  10  10
DUA   65  75  52  74 /  50  60  10  10

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 8:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
803 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0752 PM    DEER CREEK                OK  TORNADO
05/07/97   GRANT                         DEPUTY FROM GRANT CO SHERIFFS
                                         OFFICE REPORTED 2 BRIEF
                                         TOUCHDOWNS

0758 PM    7W BLACKWELL              OK  TORNADO
05/07/97   KAY                           KAY COUNTY SPOTTER REPORTED

BZ
Local storm report, May 7, 8:24 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
825 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0810 PM    12 SW ARNETT              OK  0.88 INCH HAIL
05/07/97   ELLIS

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Local storm report, May 7, 8:25 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
825 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0810 PM    12 SW ARNETT              OK  0.88 INCH HAIL
05/07/97   ELLIS

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Local storm report, May 7, 8:35 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
835 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0736 PM    2 W DEER CREEK            OK  1.00 INCH HAIL AT INTERSECTION
05/07/97   GRANT                         OF HWYS 11 AND 74

BZ
Local storm report, May 7, 9:00 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
900 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0840 PM    3 SW PONCA CITY           OK  1.00 INCH HAIL
5/07/97    KAY

BZ
Local storm report, May 7, 9:02 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
900 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0840 PM    3 SW PONCA CIHTY           OK  1.00 INCH HAIL
5/07/97    KAY

BZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant, Kay39 min
May 7, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis41 min
May 7, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay, Noble50 min
May 7, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant45 min
May 7, 8:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNGrant3 hr
May 7, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Roger Mills60 min
May 7, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay, Noble40 min
May 7, 9:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKay3 hr
May 7, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay46 min
May 7, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills45 min
May 7, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Washita43 min
May 7, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarmon42 min
May 7, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant52 min
May 7, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarmon51 min
May 7, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Custer, Kiowa, Washita62 min
May 7, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Dewey62 min
May 7, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Jackson39 min
May 7, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Grady50 min
May 7, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher62 min
May 7, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan, Oklahoma55 min
May 7, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, McClain55 min
May 7, 11:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNNoble3 hr
May 8, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarmon, Jackson39 min
May 8, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Tillman45 min
May 8, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Tillman46 min
May 8, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton53 min
May 8, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman47 min
May 8, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Foard, Knox43 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox45 min
May 8, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox46 min
May 8, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard40 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.