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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Norman, OK

May 24, 2000Caddo County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT for Caddo County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min. 6 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
May 24, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Caddo County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 8:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61 ECarnegie, OK
May 24, 8:20 PM CDTHail 1.75Carnegie, OK
May 24, 8:35 PM CDTHail 2Carnegie, OK
May 24, 8:59 PM CDTHail 0.75Anadarko, OK
May 24, 9:02 PM CDTHail 1Anadarko, OK
May 24, 9:02 PM CDTThunderstorm WindAnadarko, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4553 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
4553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
20.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Kiowa, Washita45 min
May 24, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian52 min
May 24, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo45 min
May 24, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady42 min
May 24, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma55 min
May 24, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian63 min
May 24, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher, Logan43 min
May 24, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo50 min
May 24, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne53 min
May 24, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine47 min
May 24, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan40 min
May 24, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo36 min
May 24, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher48 min
May 24, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady42 min
May 24, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita46 min
May 24, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo47 min
May 24, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo37 min
May 24, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady50 min

Nearby

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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.