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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Norman, OK

June 19, 1998Garfield County, Noble County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 8:53 PM CDT for Garfield County, Noble County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 19, 1998, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Garfield County, OK, Noble County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 19, 9:10 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Enid, OK

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 4897 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 10.6

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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 19, 3:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
330 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

CU BUBBLING ACROSS WRN ZONES ATTM.  SUSPECT THAT WEAK BOUNDARIES
STILL LINGER AND WITH ADAS CAPES >= 3000 J/KG ACROSS MUCH OF
FA...CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATED CONVECTION THIS EVENING.  UPPER RIDGE
TRIES TO BUILD IN OVER THE WEEKEND.  BUT FA REMAINS LARGELY ON THE
EDGE OF THE RIDGE WITH SHORT WAVES MOVING THROUGH RELATIVELY ZONAL
FLOW.  WILL LEAVE LOW POPS THROUGH MONDAY.  BY TUESDAY RIDGE SHOULD
BE STRONG ENOUGH TO INHIBIT CONVECTION.

FCSTID = 10
OKC   74  99  74  94 /  20  20  20  20
HBR   73 101  73  94 /  20  20  20  20
SPS   74 105  73  95 /  20  20  20  20
GAG   70 100  67  93 /  20  20  20  20
PNC   74  99  73  94 /  20  20  20  20
DUA   75  99  74  95 /  20  20  20  20

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:32 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
832 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

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

0818 PM    2 S COGAR                 OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/98   CADDO

0820 PM    12 WSW EL RENO            OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/98   CANADIAN

ZIG

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:35 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
835 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

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

0828 PM    2 N ENID                  OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/19/98   GARFIELD

ZIG

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:35 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
835 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

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

0828 PM    2 N ENID                  OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/19/98   GARFIELD

ZIG

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:41 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
841 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

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

0835 PM    4 S COGAR                 OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/19/98   CADDO

ZIG

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:41 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
841 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998

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

0835 PM    4 S COGAR                 OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/19/98   CADDO

ZIG

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:53 PM CDT, 0 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 19, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	48 min
Jun 19, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield	33 min
Jun 19, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Grady, Stephens	46 min
Jun 19, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Washita	44 min
Jun 19, 7:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield	114 min
Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	48 min
Jun 19, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	41 min
Jun 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo	30 min
Jun 19, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield	36 min
Jun 19, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	30 min
Jun 19, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian	42 min
Jun 19, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian	45 min
Jun 19, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	39 min
Jun 20, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	45 min
Jun 20, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	40 min
Jun 20, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian	46 min
Jun 20, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	42 min
Jun 20, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	46 min
Jun 20, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	43 min
Jun 20, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	53 min
Jun 20, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	46 min
Jun 20, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	51 min
Jun 20, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	32 min
Jun 20, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	46 min
Jun 19, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Baylor	3 hr
Jun 19, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	60 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.