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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 555, NWS Norman, OK

October 3, 1998Archer County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 1998, 7:34 PM CDT for Archer County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: Oct 3, 1998, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Archer 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
Oct 3, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 1358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.1

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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 Oct 3, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 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
Oct 4, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	24 min
Oct 4, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	46 min
Oct 4, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	68 min
Oct 4, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	35 min
Oct 4, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	41 min
Oct 4, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	47 min
Oct 4, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	48 min
Oct 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	66 min
Oct 4, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	52 min
Oct 4, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer	46 min
Oct 4, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine	33 min
Oct 4, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	47 min
Oct 4, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	49 min
Oct 4, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	45 min
Oct 4, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	52 min
Oct 4, 5:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	3 hr
Oct 4, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	48 min
Oct 4, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	49 min
Oct 4, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	49 min
Oct 4, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	38 min
Oct 4, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine	33 min
Oct 4, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	45 min
Oct 4, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo	32 min
Oct 4, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	36 min
Oct 4, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	49 min
Oct 4, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	34 min
Oct 4, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	47 min
Oct 4, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	44 min
Oct 4, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	35 min
Oct 4, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	49 min
Oct 4, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	29 min
Oct 4, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	33 min
Oct 4, 6:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kay	3 hr
Oct 4, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	31 min
Oct 4, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	40 min
Oct 4, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	39 min
Oct 4, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	36 min
Oct 4, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	48 min
Oct 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	32 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.