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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Norman, OK

March 18, 1998Clay County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1998, 9:07 PM CST for Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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: Mar 18, 1998, 9:07 PM CST (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 1998, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clay County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 18, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Mar 18, 3:30 PM CST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 3:30 PM CST, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 18, 8:11 PM CST, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 18, 8:28 PM CST, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 18, 8:43 PM CST, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 18, 8:50 PM CST, 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
845 PM WED MAR 18 1998

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

0840 PM    LAKE KICKAPOO             TX   0.88 INCH HAIL.
03/18/98   ARCHER

0845 PM    4 SW ARCHER CITY          TX   1.00 INCH HAIL.
03/18/98   ARCHER

LINDLEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 9:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	53 min
Mar 18, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	32 min
Mar 18, 10:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	41 min
Mar 18, 10:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	53 min
Mar 18, 11:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love, Marshall	53 min
Mar 18, 11:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Pontotoc	53 min
Mar 18, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	43 min
Mar 18, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Seminole	31 min
Mar 18, 11:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	48 min
Mar 18, 11:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	51 min
Mar 19, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	48 min
Mar 18, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	60 min
Mar 18, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.