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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Norman, OK

January 31, 1998Custer County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 31, 1998, 6:29 AM CST for Custer 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: Jan 31, 1998, 6:29 AM CST (12:29 UTC)
Expired: Jan 31, 1998, 7:15 AM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Custer County, OK

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 Jan 31, 3:30 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 3:30 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 310951
AFDOKC
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
330 AM CST SAT JAN 31 1998

FAIRLY WIDESPREAD TRW MOVING THRU N TX COUNTIES INTO SW OK THIS
MORNING WITH A FEW STG TO SVR STMS. UPR SYS MOVING OUT OF NM INTO W
TX SHUD CONT ON TO THE NE TODAY. MOISTR CONTS TO SURGE NWD MAINLY
THROUGH WRN SECS THIS MORNING BUT SHUD SPREAD OVER THE RMDR OFTHE FA
DURING THE DAY. AS UPR SYS APCHS EXPECTED WIDESPREAD RW/TRW TO
SPREAD EWD OVER THE AREA TODAY. EXPECT PRECIP TO END IN THE SW THIS
AFTN AND GRDLY END FROM THE SW OVER MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. WILL
KEEP SOME LO POPS IN THE E FOR A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS SUNDAY
MORNING. CDFNT WORKS ITS WAY INTO WRN SECS LATE TODAY AND THEN THRU
MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT AND INTO THE SE SUNDAY. MOS TMPS GENLY IN
THE BALLPARK WITH A FEW MINOR ADJ.

FCSTID = 02
OKC   55  40  51  35 /  80  60  20  10
HBR   58  38  53  32 / 100  20  10  10
SPS   61  42  57  36 / 100  30  10  10
GAG   53  30  49  26 /  80  40  10  10
PNC   56  40  50  33 /  60  80  20  10
DUA   62  50  45  56 /  60  80  30  10

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 31, 6:00 AM CST, 29 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
Jan 31, 1:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer	27 min
Jan 31, 5:35 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Greer, Kiowa	3 hr
Jan 31, 3:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	34 min
Jan 31, 3:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	36 min
Jan 31, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 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.