Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 31, 1998, 10:17 PM CST for Comanche County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 31, 1998, 10:17 PM CST (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 31, 1998, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 10:20 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Meers, OK | Numerous reports of nickel-sized hail were received from the northern portion of Comanche County. |
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 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 9:35 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 9:35 PM CST, 42 minutes before
FPUS3 KOKC 010341 AFDOKC AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 935 PM CST SAT JAN 31 1998 ... 8TH WETTEST JANUARY FOR KOKC PLUS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL... SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT... COMPLEX SPRINGLIKE PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER THE FA THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. 03Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT OF SYNOPTIC AND MESOSCALE FEATURES THE PAST 09 HOURS. WEAK OCCLUDED FRONT EXTENDS SOUTHWARD FROM SE NEB AND CNTRL KS ACRS WRN OKLAHOMA TO A SFC LOW OVR NW TX S OF KCDS. PATTERN GETS MESSY FM THERE WITH A DVLPG WMFNT EXTENDING EWD ALG RED RIVER WITH A STNRY FNT/DRY LINE EXTENDING SWD TO THE LWR RIO GRANDE VALLEY WHILE A WEAK CDFNT EXTENDS WWD FM THE SFC LOW OVER SRN NM. DRY AIR OVR TX/OK PNHNDLS ALLOWING FOR GOOD RADITIONAL COOLING WHICH HELPING TO INCREASING BAROCLINICITY/UPLIFT ALG FRONTAL ZONE ACRS SW AND CNTRL OKLAHOMA. ALOFT... LOW-LEVEL FLOW HAS CONTINUED TO BACK TO SLY WITH NICE 35-40 KT 850 JET DVLPG ACRS CNTRL OKLA. 700-500 MB FLOW HAS BACKED FM WEST TO SW INDCTG STRNGTHNG S/W TROF AND UVV APCHG FM TX PNHDL. NARROW WEDGE OF ELEVATED INSTABILITY SHOWS UP NICELY ON 00Z OUN SOUNDING AND IN SFC DEWPOINT TRAJECTORIES. CAPES OF 500-1000 J/KG WILL CONTINUE OVERSPREAD NRN 2/3S OF FA AND ALLOW FOR MARGINAL SVR TSRA MAINLY DUE TO TO HAIL. LOW WBZERO HGT INDCTS SIG FALLS OF SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE IN SOME OF THE STRGR STMS. HWVR... INSTABILITY EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AS WARMER MID-LEVEL TEMPS ADVECT ACRS AREA AND SFC AIR COOLS AND STABILIZES ACRS CNTRL/NRN TX. CONVRGNC ASSOCD WITH LOW-LEVEL JET AND WSWLY MID-LVL FLOW WILL HELP PRODUCE SOME ADDITONAL TRAINING OF ECHOES ACRS SW AND CNTRL OK THROUGH EARLY MORNING. ALREADY RCVD A FEW REPORTS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR 1 1/2 INCH IN SW AND CNTRL ZONES. HWVR... ONLY MODERATE PWS AND RELATIVELY FAST MOVEMENT OF CELLS SHOULD PRECLUDE THE NEED FOR A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. BULK OF CURRENT ZFP LOOKS GOOD AND WILL ONLY UPDATE TO MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST COUNTIES MAINLY ALG AND SOUTH OF I-40. DUE TO SATURATED GROUND ACRS NW AND WRN OKLAHOMA... CLEARING SKIES AND GOOD RADTNL COOLING WILL LIKELY RESULT IN THICK FOG DVLPG. HWVR... WILL LET MIDSHIFT ASSESS NEED FOR FOG ADVISORY BUT WILL MENTION LOCALLY DENSE FOG IN THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS. FCSTID= STEWART .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 31, 9:00 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
900 PM CST SAT JAN 31 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0845 PM 2 NNE COOPERTON OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
1/31/98 KIOWA
JSLocal storm report, Jan 31, 9:00 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
900 PM CST SAT JAN 31 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0845 PM 2 NNE COOPERTON OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
1/31/98 KIOWA
JSLocal storm report, Jan 31, 9:40 PM CST, 37 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
900 PM CST SAT JAN 31 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0845 PM 1 N COOPERTON OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
1/31/98 KIOWA 3 INCHES DEEP ON
HIGHWAY 54
JSLocal storm report, Jan 31, 9:50 PM CST, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
950 PM CST SAT JAN 31 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM COLD SPRINGS OK 3 INCH RAINFALL
1/31/98 KIOWA MEASURED BY AMATEUR
RADIO OPERATOR
JSLocal storm report, Jan 31, 9:50 PM CST, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
950 PM CST SAT JAN 31 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM COLD SPRINGS OK 3 INCH RAINFALL
1/31/98 KIOWA MEASURED BY AMATEUR
RADIO OPERATOR
JSLocal storm report, Jan 31, 10:15 PM CST, 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 39 min |
| Jan 31, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jan 31, 8:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 41 min |
| Jan 31, 9:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Comanche, Greer, Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jan 31, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 59 min |
| Jan 31, 9:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo, Grady | 3 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.