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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 583, NWS Norman, OK

September 17, 2001Alfalfa County, Major County, Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2001, 11:43 PM CDT for Alfalfa County, Major County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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
Sep 17, 2001, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2001, 12:35 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1656 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
1656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 Sep 17, 9:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 9:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
951 CDT MON SEP 17 2001

THE OVERNIGHT FORECAST IS ON TRACK NEEDING VERY LITTLE ADJUSTMENT.
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL MOVE INTO HARPER COUNTY FROM THE NORTHWEST
BEFORE MIDNIGHT. THE BULK OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WILL NOT
REACH CENTRAL SECTIONS UNTIL NEARLY DAYBREAK OR LATER...BUT A FEW
STORMS MAY OCCASIONALLY FORM AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA AS WE HAVE ALREADY
SEEN THIS EVENING...SO TIMING WORDING WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE FORECAST.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods, Woodward43 min
Sep 17, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis31 min
Sep 17, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward52 min
Sep 18, 12:49 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor26 min
Sep 18, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Kingfisher40 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.