Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 634, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 12, 2001, 6:19 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Oklahoma; Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 12, 2001, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Jefferson County, OK, Clay County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Terral, OK | |
| Oct 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bellevue, TX |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 12, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 345 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 COLD FRONT MAKING ITS WAY INTO NORTHWEST PARTS OF FA THIS AFTERNOON WITH TROUGH/DRYLINE PUSHING INTO WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ZONES. ETA/KF SUGGEST THAT STORMS WILL INITIATE IN NORTH/SOUTH LINE ALONG TROUGH AFTER 21Z. AS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING PROGRESS...LOOKS LIKE BETTER...STRONGER CONVECTION WILL BEGIN FARTHER SOUTH OF FA. EVENTUALLY...SQUALL LINE WILL DEVELOP AND PUSH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AT LEAST THIS WILL BE BEST AREA FOR SEVERE STORMS. AS SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DIG AND CLOSE-OFF...POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL ALSO BE A CONCERN ACROSS SOUTHEAST PART OF FA. WILL THEREFORE ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A HOLDENVILLE TO MARIETTA LINE. CLOUDS WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR ACROSS WESTERN PARTS OF FA BY AT LEAST SATURDAY MORNING...BUT WILL HOLD ON TO CLOUDS FOR PART OF THE DAY ACROSS EASTERN PARTS. SIMILAR TO LAST SYSTEM...WITH COLD CORE OVER NORTHERN TEXAS...WILL LIKELY HAVE AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS THAT WILL AFFECT MAINLY SOUTHEASTERN PARTS OF FA DURING THE LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON ON SATURDAY. AFTER SYSTEM PUSHES TO THE EAST SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY...DRY WEATHER SHOULD BE THE RULE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD. FOR SHORT TERM PERIOD...WILL LIKELY FOLLOW MORE OF MAV NUMBERS FOR HIGHS AND LOWS...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGHS ON SUNDAY. IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...ANOTHER SYSTEM IN NORTHWEST FLOW WILL HELP PUSH ANOTHER BOUNDARY THROUGH THE AREA ON MONDAY. SURFACE HIGH SHOULD BE CENTERED NEAR OK BY TUESDAY MORNING SO COLDEST OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE TUESDAY MORNING. A GRADUALLY WARMING TREND IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY INTO FRIDAY WITH OVERALL PATTERN BECOMING MORE ZONAL BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. FCSTID = 6 OKC 51 63 47 68 / 70 30 0 0 HBR 47 64 47 72 / 40 10 0 0 SPS 45 62 45 72 / 60 30 0 0 GAG 37 64 38 67 / 30 10 0 0 PNC 48 62 46 68 / 60 10 0 0 DUA 54 67 48 68 / 100 40 10 0 .OUN... OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT...OKZ032-041>43-046>48-050>052 TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 12, 4:19 PM CDT, 2 hours before
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LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
525 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0513 PM 9 WSW JOY TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 CLAY PUBLIC REPORT
0524 PM 5 S HENRIETTA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 CLAY AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
KTLocal storm report, Oct 12, 5:26 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
526 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM 5 S CHICKASHA OK .88 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 GRADY AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
KTLocal storm report, Oct 12, 6:19 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
619 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0616 PM 2 N JOY TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/12/01 CLAY REPORTED BY AMATEUR
RADIO OPERATOR
JFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 49 min |
| Oct 12, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 25 min |
| Oct 12, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher | 46 min |
| Oct 12, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 48 min |
| Oct 12, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 44 min |
| Oct 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 45 min |
| Oct 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 49 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.