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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 7:35 PM CDT for Caddo County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 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
- May 26, 2000, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Caddo County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Eakly, OK | This tornado formed 1.5 miles east southeast of Eakly in Caddo County, lasting for just a few seconds before dissipating. No damage occurred, and thus the tornado was rated F0. |
| May 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Binger, OK | This tornado was observed by several storm chasers 6.5 miles west of Binger in Caddo County just north of State Route 152. During the early stages of its development, the tornado was embedded in rapidly rotating rain curtains believed to have been upwards of 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 4172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
555 WFUS54 KOUN 270038 TOROKC OKC015-270100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 735 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CADDO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 735 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS CONFIRMED NEAR HIGHWAY 58 JUST NORTH OF EAKLY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES AS IT MOVES EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BINGER...EAKLY...HINTON AND LOOKEBA THIS IS AN VERY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. VERY LARGE HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE OR LARGER ALSO IS LIKELY... ESPECIALLY NORTH OF THE TRACK OF THE TORNADO. LAT...LON 3551 9862 3527 9862 3526 9829 3554 9832
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 38 min |
| May 26, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian | 27 min |
| May 26, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo | 48 min |
| May 26, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Washita | 59 min |
| May 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland | 32 min |
| May 26, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 34 min |
| May 26, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 47 min |
| May 26, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| May 26, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 45 min |
| May 26, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 48 min |
| May 27, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 43 min |
| May 27, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 39 min |
| May 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 62 min |
| May 27, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston | 47 min |
| May 27, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 39 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.