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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Oct 27, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lincoln County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Stroud, 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 nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
909 WFUS54 KOUN 272043 TOROKC OKC081-272115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 343 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 343 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STROUD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE STROUD 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 3580 9675 3565 9670 3565 9662 3581 9664 WR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Oct 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Murray, Stephens | 3 hr |
| Oct 26, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 24 min |
| Oct 27, 3:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Logan | 2 hr |
| Oct 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Oct 27, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan | 3 hr |
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.