Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 131, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Sep 12, 1999, 3:01 AM CDT for Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 29 min. 4 reports 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
- Sep 12, 1999, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1999, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 3:05 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodward, OK | |
| Sep 12, 3:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 74 | Woodward, OK | |
| Sep 12, 3:15 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Woodward, OK | |
| Sep 12, 3:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Mooreland, 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 34 min |
| Sep 11, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 37 min |
| Sep 11, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 31 min |
| Sep 11, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 32 min |
| Sep 12, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 30 min |
| Sep 12, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 28 min |
| Sep 12, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 29 min |
| Sep 12, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 37 min |
| Sep 12, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Stephens | 39 min |
| Sep 12, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 40 min |
| Sep 12, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 52 min |
| Sep 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 50 min |
| Sep 12, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 45 min |
| Sep 12, 2:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Kay | 2 hr |
| Sep 12, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 40 min |
| Sep 12, 3:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woodward | 28 min |
| Sep 12, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Major, Woods | 33 min |
| Sep 12, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major | 24 min |
| Sep 12, 4:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 2 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Carter, Love | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Wichita, Wilbarger | 30 min |
| Sep 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 40 min |
| Sep 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Wichita | 46 min |
| Sep 11, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 24 min |
| Sep 11, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman, Wilbarger | 37 min |
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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.