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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2000, 5:12 PM CST for Grant County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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 15, 2000, 5:12 PM CST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grant County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 15, 5:20 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Wakita, OK | |
| Mar 15, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Wakita, OK | This tornado formed about 2.5 miles southwest of Wakita and was described as brief and rope-like. No damage was observed or reported. |
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 15, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOUN 152315 TOROKC OKC053-152345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 512 PM CST WED MAR 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 512 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKITA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED A BRIEF TORNADO NORTH OF THE GREAT SALT PLAINS LAKE AT 452 PM. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WAKITA ANY DEVELOPING TORNADOES ARE LIKELY OBSCURED BY RAIN AND MAY NOT BE VISIBLE. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3693 9810 3677 9809 3679 9776 3698 9777 ANDRA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey | 51 min |
| Mar 15, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 5:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grant | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 5:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.