Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. 6 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Garfield County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Enid, OK | |
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Enid, OK | Severe thunderstorm winds wrapped a trampoline around a pole and downed many tree limbs. |
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Enid, OK | Thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph was reported by a spotter. |
| Jun 10, 6:23 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Vance Afb, OK | |
| Jun 10, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Enid, OK | |
| Jun 10, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kremlin, OK | Power lines were blown down. |
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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 10, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 300 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 CNVCTN INCRSG OVR NTX/SRN OK AHD OF MID LVL WV MOVG NWD. THIS FEATURE IS NOT PICKED UP BY MDLS. EXPCT PCPN TO OVRSPRD MUCH OF SRN AND CNTL ZNS THIS EVENING. ANOTHER SHTWV APCHG SWRN NM WL MOVE NE AND INCRS PCPN OUT W LATER ON TNGT. PREV PCPN OVR SRN OK AND TX PTN OF FA HAS RESULTED IN SATURATED GROUND...SO WL GO WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THOSE AREAS TNGT. WL SIDE WITH THE AVN AND ITS FASTER MVMT OF SHTWV...WHICH SHUD MOVE NE OF AREA THU AFTN. BLV THAT AVN/NGM ARE TOO DEEP WITH SFC LOW OVR CNTL PLNS ON THU...SO WL FOLLOW ETA SFC FEATURES WHICH KEEPS SFC TROF FURTHER W. RESIDUAL MSTR AND ANY LO CLDS MAY HAMPER INSOLATION EARLY...BUT EXPCT ENUF BREAKS IN CLDS DURG AFTN FOR TEMPS TO REACH MOS VALUES. NOT TOO MUCH CHG IN THE OVERALL PATERN THRU 48 HRS...AND CONFIDENCE IN MDL DEPICTIONS NOT EXTREMELY HIGH. THU NGT AND FRI SHUD BE A RELATIVE LULL IN PCPN...SO WL KEEP POPS IN THE SLGT CHC CATEGORY. AVN BRINGS MAIN UPR TROF OUT TO THE 4-CORNERS AREA BY BEGINNING OF DAY SAT...SO WL INCRS POPS FRI NGT AND SAT. ..04.. GAG 66/90/62/94 4222 PNC 73/89/68/90 4322 HBR 69/92/67/95 67222 SPS 70/93/69/96 +222 OKC 71/87/69/92 7322 DUA 74/89/71/91 +322 .OKC... OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TNGT ZNS 37>48..50>52. TX...FALSH FLOOD WATCH TNGT ZNS 84>90.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
342 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM ADA OK WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 PONTOTOC FEW TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
ADA.
TLLocal storm report, Jun 10, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
342 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM ADA OK WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 PONTOTOC FEW TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
ADA.
TLLocal storm report, Jun 10, 3:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
350 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM BOWLEGS OK 60 MPH WIND GUST
06/10/98 SEMINOLE
TLLocal storm report, Jun 10, 3:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
350 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM BOWLEGS OK 60 MPH WIND GUST
06/10/98 SEMINOLE
TLThe 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, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 27 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 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, 1998Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.