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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Norman, OK

June 10, 1998Atoka County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 1:18 AM CDT for Atoka County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 10, 1998, 1:18 AM CDT (06:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Atoka County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 3007 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.8

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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 Jun 9, 3:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 53 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 092026
AFDOKC
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
325 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998

SEVERE STORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE
FORECAST AREA.  WE EXPECT CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE
EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NEAR THE WEAKENING FRONTAL SYSTEM
STRETCHED FROM NEAR STILLWATER TO ALTUS.  UPPER FLOW IS ROUGHLY
PARALLEL TO THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH SUGGESTS THE POSSIBILITY OF
TRAINING STORMS.  HAVE CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY OF A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH...BUT AM NOT QUITE SATISFIED THAT WE CAN REACH GUIDANCE LEVELS
OVER A WIDESPREAD AREA TONIGHT.  FLOOD POTENTIAL APPEARS HIGHER
TOMORROW EVENING...ONCE THE GROUND IS MORE SATURATED AFTER THE
STORMS TONIGHT.

ALTHOUGH THE MODELS DEVELOP AN UPPER RIDGE OVER US TONIGHT...IT
APPEARS THAT SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO RIDE OVER THE RIDGE AND
WILL LIKELY ADD SOME SUPPORT FOR CONVECTION FROM TIME TO TIME.  MORE
IMPORTANTLY...LEFTOVER BOUNDARIES FROM DAILY CONVECTION WILL PROVIDE
SEEMINGLY RANDOM FAVORED AREAS FOR MORE CONVECTION.  AM GUESSING
THAT THE MAIN BOUNDARY TOMORROW WILL BE THE SOUTHERN OUTFLOW FROM
THE STORMS TONIGHT.  SO HAVE PLACED HIGHEST POPS IN SOUTH FOR
TOMORROW.  AFTER THAT...POPS ARE MORE UNIFORM.

MOS TEMPERATURES ARE MOSTLY QUITE REASONABLE AND HAVE STRAYED LITTLE
FROM THEM.  INCREASING MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH RETURN TO SOUTHERLY
LOW LEVEL FLOW SHOULD KEEP MINIMUM TEMPERATURES FAIRLY WARM FOR
QUITE A WHILE.

HAVE MADE A MINOR CHANGE TO THE EXTENDED PERIODS.  MRF SUGGESTS
ELEVATED CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION ON SATURDAY...SO UPPED THE POPS
FOR THAT DAY SLIGHTLY.

COORD TUL.

FCSTID = 23 = CMS

OKC   70  86  71  88 /  70  40  50  30
HBR   66  88  69  90 /  60  40  50  30
SPS   73  92  75  94 /  60  50  50  30
GAG   58  86  63  86 /  40  30  40  20
PNC   70  88  72  85 /  70  30  50  30
DUA   75  85  75  90 /  50  40  40  30

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
1022 PM CDT TUE JUN  9 1998

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

0955 PM    1 NW    WALTERS           OK   67 MPH WIND GUST, MEASURED
06/09/98   COTTON                         OKLAHOMA MESONETWORK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1054 PM CDT TUE JUN  9 1998

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

0700 PM    3 S HEALDTON              OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/98   CARTER                         TRAILOR HOME DAMAGED
                                          STORAGE BUILDING DAMAGED
                                          LARGE TREES DOWN

0700 PM    2 W WILSON                OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/98   CARTER                         FRUIT STAND ROOF BLOWN INTO
                                          HOUSE

0700 PM    3 W WILSON                OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/98   CARTER                         TWO TRAILOR HOMES DESTROYED

0700 PM    3 W WILSON                OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/98   CARTER                         ROOF OF HOUSE BLOWN OFF

0700 PM    5 SW WILSON               OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/98   CARTER                         SEVERAL ROOFS BLOWN OFF
                                          HOUSES

0700 PM    6 W WILSON                OK   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/98   CARTER                         BARN DESTROYED

0949 PM    3 S LAWTON                OK   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/09/98   COMANCHE                       AT LAWTON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 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
Jun 9, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Murray	2 hr
Jun 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	45 min
Jun 9, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	44 min
Jun 9, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	44 min
Jun 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal	47 min
Jun 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	39 min
Jun 9, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	51 min
Jun 9, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	47 min
Jun 9, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	47 min
Jun 9, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	46 min
Jun 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	50 min
Jun 9, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens	34 min
Jun 9, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	43 min
Jun 9, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	45 min
Jun 9, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	46 min
Jun 9, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Stephens	51 min
Jun 9, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Murray	31 min
Jun 9, 11:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Murray	87 min
Jun 9, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Stephens	44 min
Jun 9, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	41 min
Jun 10, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Kiowa, Washita	40 min
Jun 10, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal	28 min
Jun 10, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall	48 min
Jun 10, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	47 min
Jun 10, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Seminole	45 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	45 min
Jun 9, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	35 min
Jun 9, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.