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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 420, NWS Norman, OK

September 3, 2000Harper County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT for Harper 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
Sep 3, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Harper County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 586 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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 Sep 3, 2:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 2:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
210 PM CDT SUN SEP 3 2000

LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED THROUGH MOST OF THE WEEK WITH AFTERNOON
TEMPERATURES NEARING OR BREAKING RECORDS SOME 20 DEGREES ABOVE
WEEKLY NORMALS. THE MRF BRINGS A LOW FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO INTO
WEST TX BY FRIDAY. OTHER THAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT HERE AND TREND
TEMPERATURES BACK TO ONLY 10 TO 15 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL, NOTHING
ELSE WILL BE DONE.

IN THE MEANTIME A WEAK BOUNDARY THAT EXTENDED FROM EAST CENTRAL OK
TO MEDFORD WILL PROBABLY BE THE FOCUS FOR ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE QUASI-STATIONARY DIFFUSE SYNOPTIC
BOUNDARY FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST KS HAS AN OUTSIDE CHANCE OF
PUTTING A STORM INTO PART OF NORTHERN OK LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR
EARLY EVENING. BY MONDAY AFTERNOON, THE MODELS SHOW THE UPPER RIDGE
BUILDING SLIGHTLY MORE NORTH AND EAST DIMINISHING SLIM CHANCES EVEN
MORE FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHERN OK. THE WEEK WILL
BE MUCH AS THAT LAST ONE.

FCSTID = 9
OKC   76 107  76 104 /   0   0   0   0
HBR   77 108  77 106 /   0   0   0   0
SPS   77 108  77 106 /   0   0   0   0
GAG   75 109  75 105 /   0   0   0   0
PNC   75 109  75 105 /   0   0   0   0
DUA   76 107  76 104 /   0   0   0   0

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.