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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS Norman, OK

June 12, 2001Major County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2001, 10:23 PM CDT for Major County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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 12, 2001, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2001, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Major County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 10:30 PM CDTThunderstorm WindCedar Spgs, OKSix-inch diameter tree limbs were downed.

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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 2001-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2981 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 2001-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2981 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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 12, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
920 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS CONTINUED TO PERSIST AND PUSH EAST DESPITE
DECENT CAPPING INVERSION ON THE 00Z OUN SOUNDING.  THE CONVECTION
SHOULD WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EAST INTO THE STRONGER CAP.  THERE HAS
BEEN A SLIGHT DECREASE IN MID LEVEL INTENSITIES IN THE NORTH... BUT
NOT AS MUCH AS I HAD HOPED FOR BY NOW.  HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO EXTEND
POPS FARTHER EAST IN CASE THE SHORTWAVE IS ABLE TO HELP THESE STORMS
CONTINUE FARTHER THAN EXPECTED.  THESE UPDATED ZONES ARE ALREADY OUT.

.26.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:59 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
959 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

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

0952 PM    6 W ELDORADO              OK   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   JACKSON                        AMATEUR RADIO REPORT

0955 PM    AVARD                     OK   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/12/01   WOODS                          ESTIMAWTED BY PUBLIC

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis62 min
Jun 12, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarmon, Jackson44 min
Jun 12, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods41 min
Jun 12, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita47 min
Jun 12, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa31 min
Jun 13, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Tillman38 min
Jun 13, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche44 min
Jun 13, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, Stephens65 min
Jun 13, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin46 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.