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Tornado Warning 128, NWS Norman, OK

June 29, 1999Custer County, Washita County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1999, 11:30 PM CDT for Custer County, Washita County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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
Jun 29, 1999, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1999, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Custer County, OK, Washita County, OK

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1999-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 567 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1999-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster47 min
Jun 29, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster36 min
Jun 29, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Washita48 min
Jun 30, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods, Woodward51 min
Jun 30, 2:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNHarper3 hr
Jun 30, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Harper39 min
Jun 30, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward45 min
Jun 30, 3:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNNoble3 hr
Jun 30, 4:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis40 min
Jun 30, 5:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis54 min
Jun 30, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills65 min
Jun 30, 7:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham44 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1999Every tornado warning in 1999Tornadoes in 1999

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.