Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1998, 3:14 PM CST for Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 30, 1998, 3:14 PM CST (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1998, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Love County, OK
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:50 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Courtney, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 1:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woodward | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 3:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Grady | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Stephens | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 3:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, McClain, Murray | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love, Marshall | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Marshall | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 5:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.