Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Norman, OK

Issued

Jun 20, 1998, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)

Expired

Jun 20, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Norman, OK

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kingfisher County, OK

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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.

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 text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
330 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

COLD FRONT OVR NWRN OK EXPECTED TO MOVE LITTLE THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING THEN RETURN NORTH AS A WARM FRONT RAPIDLY SUNDAY. STRONG CAP
OVER WRN ZONES IS INHIBITING TSTMS ALONG THE DRYLINE.  HOWEVER
DRYLINE SHOULD CONTINUE TO PUSH SLOWLY EAST THIS EVENING AND IS
EXPECTED TO TRIGGER ISOLATED THUNDER SOMEWHERE IN WCNTRL/SWRN ZONES
WHERE CIN IS LOWEST.

STRENGTHENING CAP/RIDGE WILL EVENTUALLY PUT AN END TO THE POPS BUT
WILL ALSO KEEP THINGS HOT.  WILL ISSUE HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH SUNDAY
FOR MOST OF FA WITH MINS NEAR 80 AND MAXES NEAR 100/ HEAT INDEX OVER
105.

FCSTID = 10
OKC   79  99  78 100 /  20  20  20  10
HBR   78 107  80 107 /  20  20  20  10
SPS   78 109  79 108 /  20  20  20  10
GAG   65 104  70 105 /   0   0   0  20
PNC   81 101  81 101 /  20  20  10  20
DUA   80 101  80 101 /  20  20  20  10

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

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.