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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 400, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 2001Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 4:59 AM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2001, 4:59 AM CDT (09:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2001, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garfield County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 2001-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3841 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
3841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 12:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1209 AM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1155 PM    BUFFALO                   OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   HARPER                         RPTD BY CO S.O.

TL
Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
110 AM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0108 AM    SEiILING                   OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   DEWEY                          RPTD BY HAM RADIO SPOTTER.

TL
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey36 min
Jun 4, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills35 min
Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woodward35 min
Jun 4, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills42 min
Jun 4, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woods39 min
Jun 4, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa40 min
Jun 4, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods39 min
Jun 4, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNRoger Mills29 min
Jun 4, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNRoger Mills39 min
Jun 4, 9:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNRoger Mills3 hr
Jun 4, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills61 min
Jun 4, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster51 min
Jun 4, 10:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNRoger Mills47 min
Jun 4, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Ellis49 min
Jun 4, 11:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNRoger Mills52 min
Jun 4, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster63 min
Jun 4, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey51 min
Jun 4, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper46 min
Jun 4, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis51 min
Jun 5, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Major, Woodward47 min
Jun 5, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper43 min
Jun 5, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey23 min
Jun 5, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Kingfisher40 min
Jun 5, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey30 min
Jun 5, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield40 min
Jun 5, 2:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine26 min
Jun 5, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward44 min
Jun 5, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods38 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward49 min
Jun 5, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods48 min
Jun 5, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward34 min
Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.