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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 407, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 2001Woodward County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 8:26 PM CDT for Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
Jun 5, 2001, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Woodward County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 8:42 PM CDTHail 0.88Tangier, 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
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, 3:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
356 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

BAROCLINIC ZONE RAMAINS MORE OR LESS STATIONARY ROUGHLY FROM
KGAG...TO KICT...INTO MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. EXPECT BOUNDARY TO
LIGHT UP ACROSS NORTHWEST OK...AND TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF THE AREA
OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WITH WEAKER CAP IN PLACE...ANTICIPATE
CONVECTION WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD THAN YESTERDAY. DESPITE
WIDESPREAD STRATUS/CU...TEMPS HAVE WARMED TO THE MID 80S ACROSS THE
AREA...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 70S...YIELDING CAPES AS HIGH AS 4000
J/KG PER SPC MESOANALYSIS. HIGHEST POPS FOR TONIGHT WILL BE ACROSS
NORTH CENTRAL ZONES...WITH MODEST ISENTROPIC LIFT DEVELOPING OVER
LOW LEVEL BOUNDAY. CONVECTIVELY REINFORCED FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH
FURTHER TO THE SOUTH ON WEDNESDAY...THUS HIGHER POPS WILL BE
CONFINED TO THOSE AREAS FOR TOMORROW.

AFTER TONIGHT...FORECAST IS COMPLICATED BY THE PRESENCE OF TROPICAL
STORM ALLISON...CURRENTLY OVER THE NORTHWEST GULF. ANY DIRECT EFFECT
ON OUR WEATHER...IF ANY AT ALL...WILL BE MORE LIKELY ACROSS THE
EXTREME SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE CWA. OF MORE CONCERN FOR OUR AREA
IS THE ALTERING OF UPPER AIR AND SURFACE PATTERNS EXPECTED TO BE
BROUGHT ABOUT BY THIS SYSTEM...WHICH IS MAKING A DIFFICULT FORECAST
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF CONVECTION FIRING OFF THE HIGH PLAINS...AND
RIDING NORTHWEST FLOW INTO OUR PART OF THE WORLD LATER IN THE WEEK.
ANY DISRUPTION IN TERMS OF MOISTURE RETURN...OR THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW
PATTERN...WILL UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON WHETHER ANY CONVECTION
CAN MAKE IT INTO OUR AREA. HOWEVER...WITH PERSISTENT UPSLOPE FLOW
DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGH PLAINS...AND NORTHWEST FLOW SETTING UP OVER
OUR AREA...WILL GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE POPS FOR THIS WEEKEND...
MAINLY WITH NOCTURNAL AND/OR MORNING WORDING.

NEW PACKAGE WILL CONTINUE A WARMING TREND THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF
NEXT WEEKEND...AS MEDIUM RANGE MODELS GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT ON
GRADUALLY BUILDING MID AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE AREA. ALONG
THOSE LINES...WILL KEEP THE LAST 2 DAYS OF THE EXTENDED DRY.

LANE

OKC   69  82  65  84 /  40  30  20  20
HBR   67  84  64  85 /  40  30  20  20
SPS   69  86  67  87 /  30  40  20  20
GAG   59  83  59  87 /  40  20  20  20
PNC   64  82  63  85 /  60  20  20  20
DUA   71  85  66  84 /  20  40  30  20

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
356 PM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

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

1245 AM    TALOGA                    OK   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   DEWEY                          RPTD BY PUBLIC

1145 PM    CAMARGO                   OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   DEWEY                          RPTD BY PUBLIC

1130 PM    ROLL                      OK   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 E  ROGER MILLS                    RPTD BY PUBLIC

TL
Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
542 PM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

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

0542 PM    14 NE CAMP HOUSTON        OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   WOODS                          RPTD BY PUBLIC.

TL
Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:44 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
744 PM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

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

0640 PM    18 NNE MOORELAND          OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   WOODWARD                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0725 PM    SHATTUCK                  OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   ELLIS                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0726 PM    WOODWARD                  OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01 K  WOODWARD                       REPORTED BY PD.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:02 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
802 PM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

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

0500 PM    9 SW WOODWARD             OK   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   WOODWARD                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC
Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:12 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
812 PM CDT TUE JUN 05 2001

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

0800 PM    WOODWARD                  OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   WOODWARD                       REPORTED BY PD

0802 PM    1 N SHATTUCK              OK   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   ELLIS                          QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR
                                          HAIL. REPTD BY COOP OBSVR.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoods44 min
Jun 5, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor35 min
Jun 5, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward35 min
Jun 5, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor, Woods49 min
Jun 5, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward34 min
Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis60 min
Jun 5, 8:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNWoodward3 hr
Jun 5, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Ellis63 min
Jun 5, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Dewey, Roger Mills51 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Washita47 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills47 min
Jun 6, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Kiowa, Washita50 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.