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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Norman, OK

April 26, 1998Archer County, Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1998, 9:32 AM CDT for Archer County, Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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: Apr 26, 1998, 9:32 AM CDT (14:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1998, 10:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Archer County, TX, Wichita County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 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 Apr 26, 3:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 9:00 AM CDT, 32 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
Apr 26, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	40 min
Apr 26, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	30 min
Apr 26, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	51 min
Apr 26, 8:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	45 min
Apr 26, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Stephens	42 min
Apr 26, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	62 min
Apr 26, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	44 min
Apr 26, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	48 min
Apr 26, 5:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	3 hr
Apr 26, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	45 min
Apr 26, 7:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	25 min
Apr 26, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	37 min
Apr 26, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	49 min
Apr 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	50 min
Apr 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	45 min
Apr 26, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.