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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 513, NWS Norman, OK

August 24, 2001Ellis County, Woodward County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2001, 9:13 PM CDT for Ellis County, Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 24, 2001, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellis County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 24, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2001-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2874 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 2001-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
2874 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.4

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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 Aug 24, 3:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Ellis, Roger Mills39 min
Aug 25, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Ellis, Roger Mills59 min
Aug 25, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne56 min
Aug 25, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.