Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 585, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2001, 1:05 AM CDT for Garfield County, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 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 18, 2001, 1:05 AM CDT (06:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2001, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Garfield County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.
- 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
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, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 9:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 17, 11:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods, Woodward | 43 min |
| Sep 17, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 31 min |
| Sep 17, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods | 52 min |
| Sep 17, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Woodward | 52 min |
| Sep 18, 12:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Major | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.