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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Norman, OK

October 9, 2001Custer County, Washita County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 9, 2001, 4:38 PM CDT for Custer County, Washita 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Oct 9, 2001, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Custer County, OK, Washita County, OK

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 9, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

754 
WFUS54 KOUN 092139
TOROKC
OKC039-149-092230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
438 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CUSTER COUNTY IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA
  WASHITA COUNTY IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 438 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF CANUTE...MOVING   
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF MCCLURE 
WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS WESTERN CUSTER COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CANUTE...CLINTON...FOSS
  RESERVOIR...FOSS AND STAFFORD

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 3554 9936 3534 9936 3544 9888 3561 9912
CJS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	55 min
Oct 9, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	23 min
Oct 9, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	32 min
Oct 9, 3:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	24 min
Oct 9, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer	34 min
Oct 9, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	46 min
Oct 9, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	32 min
Oct 9, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	39 min
Oct 9, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	44 min
Oct 9, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	46 min
Oct 9, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kiowa	41 min
Oct 9, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer	51 min
Oct 9, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	50 min
Oct 9, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo	50 min
Oct 9, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Washita	32 min
Oct 9, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo	32 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.