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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 466, NWS Norman, OK

July 7, 1998Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1998, 7:29 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 7, 1998, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pottawatomie County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 7, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 7, 7:02 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
700 PM CDT TUE JUL  7 1998

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

0630 PM    BESSIE                    OK   58 MPH WIND GUST
07/07/98   WASHITA                        AT MESONET SITE
                                          4 WNW OF BESSIE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	26 min
Jul 7, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	48 min
Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	50 min
Jul 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Woodward	44 min
Jul 7, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	46 min
Jul 7, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	45 min
Jul 7, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	50 min
Jul 7, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	52 min
Jul 7, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	43 min
Jul 7, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	44 min
Jul 7, 11:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.