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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2000, 6:10 PM CST for Comanche County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2000, 6:10 PM CST (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Comanche County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Lawton, OK | |
| Mar 7, 6:17 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Lawton, OK | |
| Mar 7, 6:27 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Lawton, OK | |
| Mar 7, 6:33 PM CST | Hail 1 | Fletcher, 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 7, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOUN 080011 TOROKC OKC031-080045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 610 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 610 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES WEST OF LAWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ELGIN...FORT SILL...LAWTON AND MEDICINE PARK TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. hSTAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3460 9865 3447 9849 3471 9816 3487 9835 CJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher | 54 min |
| Mar 7, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady, Stephens | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Canadian | 27 min |
| Mar 7, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 7:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 59 min |
| Mar 7, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble, Payne | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.