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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 9:11 PM CDT for Tillman County, Oklahoma; Foard County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 10 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
- Jun 15, 2002, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tillman County, OK, Foard County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | Tipton, OK | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| Jun 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 66 E | Crowell, TX | |
| Jun 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Crowell, TX | |
| Jun 15, 9:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | Tipton, OK | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| Jun 15, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 M | Grandfield, OK | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| Jun 15, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 73 M | Grandfield, OK | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| Jun 15, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Oklaunion, TX | |
| Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Harrold, TX | |
| Jun 15, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Grandfield, OK | Part of a restaurant roof blew off. |
| Jun 15, 10:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Vernon, TX | Eight inch diameter tree limbs were downed. |
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 15, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOUN 160211 SVROKC OKC141-TXC155-487-160315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 910 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FOARD COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS WILBARGER COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS TILLMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 910 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA...TO NEAR CHILDRESS IN TEXAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CROWELL...DAVIDSON...FREDERICK... HOLLISTER...LOVELAND...MANITOU...MARGARET...ODELL...TIPTON AND VERNON THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PARTICULARLY DAMAGING WINDS. MOBILE HOMES AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED. MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ JAMES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Kiowa | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Grady | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Stephens | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 68 min |
| Jun 15, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.