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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 2001Woodward County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:25 PM CDT for Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2001, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Woodward County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 7:26 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Woodward, OK
Jun 5, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Woodward, OK	This brief tornado was observed by a storm chaser causing no damage in a field in southwest Woodward County.
Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Woodward, OK

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
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 060025
TOROKC
OKC153-060100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
725 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOODWARD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WOODWARD...MOVING
  EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MOORELAND...QUINLAN...SHARON AND
  WOODWARD

TAKE COVER NOW. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE
TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER. OTHERWISE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE
WALLS.

LAT...LON 3644 9954 3626 9954 3623 9898 3648 9898

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woods	44 min
Jun 5, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Major	35 min
Jun 5, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Major, Woods	49 min
Jun 5, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woodward	34 min
Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	60 min
Jun 5, 8:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Woodward	3 hr
Jun 5, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	49 min
Jun 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis	63 min
Jun 5, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	51 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Washita	47 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	47 min
Jun 6, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Kiowa, Washita	50 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.