Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Norman, OK

Issued

Feb 19, 2002, 7:00 AM CST (13:00 UTC)

Expired

Feb 19, 2002, 7:45 AM CST

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Norman, OK

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Atoka County, OK

The Norman radar (KTLX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS54 KOUN 191300
SVROKC
OKC005-191345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
658 AM CST TUE FEB 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ATOKA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 745 AM CST

* AT 658 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4
  MILES EAST OF STRINGTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
  A SECOND STORM WAS 2 MILES WEST OF ATOKA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.


* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ATOKA...CHOCKIE...DAISY...LANE...
  STRINGTOWN...TUSHKA AND WARDVILLE

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

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.

LAT...LON 3438 9628 3425 9626 3428 9579 3451 9581
          3453 9569 3458 9568 3459 9589 3468 9591
          3466 9607 3448 9610

WR

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 19, 4:15 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
415 AM CST TUE FEB 19 2002

LINE OF TSRA DEVELOPED OVERNIGHT AND CURRENTLY EXTENDS FROM BORDER
TO BORDER FROM NEAR STILLWATER TO NEAR HENRIETTA TEXAS.  THIS WILL
CONTINUE TO PUSH EASTWARD THIS MORNING.  BEHIND THIS ANOTHER AREA OF
RAIN IS MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST
AREA.  WILL GO LIKELY POPS AHEAD OF STORMS AND KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE
OF RAIN AT LEAST THROUGH THE MORNING EVERYWHERE ELSE.  FOR THIS
AFTERNOON WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN MAINLY IN THE NORTH AS
FRONT AND UPPER SYSTEM APPROACH.  MOST OF THE MODELS ARE WANTING TO
DEVELOP SOME QPF IN THE NORTH AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON.  WILL ALSO HAVE
TO WATCH FOR CONVECTIVE REDEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN SECTIONS THIS
AFTERNOON ALONG THE DRYLINE.  CLOUDS WILL LINGER INTO THE EVENING IN
THE EAST AND NORTH... BUT WILL DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING/
OVERNIGHT HOURS IN THE SOUTHWEST.

BY TOMORROW MOST AREAS WILL SEE MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES.  ANOTHER WEAK
COOL FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY BUT
THERE IS LITTLE MOISTURE TO SPEAK OF.  FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL BY
THE WEEKEND AND LOW LEVEL TEMPERATURES WARM SIGNIFICANTLY.  850 MB
TEMPS PROGGED BY THE AVN TO BE 13C TO 19C ACROSS THE AREA BY
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.  YESTERDAY/S MRF WAS THE ODD MODEL OUT IN
KEEPING THICKNESSES LOW ACROSS THE AREA WHILE OTHER MEDIUM RANGE
MODELS SHOWED A WARMER ATMOSPHERE.  THIS MORNING/S MRF HAS COME
AROUND WITH THE WARM PROGNOSTICATION SO HAVE FOLLOWED THAT IN THE
EXTENDED GENERALLY INCREASING TEMPS THIS WEEKEND.  MODELS ARE ALSO
RELATIVELY CONSISTENT IN BRINGING A SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT DOWN LATE
SUNDAY OR MONDAY SO HAVE BEGUN TRENDING TEMPERATURES LOWER FOR
MONDAY.

...SPEG.
FIRST ITERATION... FIRST PERIOD POPS WILL BE TWEAKED AT ZONE TIME.
OKC   65  41  59  40 /  20  10   0   0
HBR   64  39  61  38 /  20   0   0   0
SPS   67  40  63  41 /  20   0   0   0
GAG   52  34  59  34 /  20  10   0   0
PNC   64  40  57  37 /  30  10   0   0
DUA   68  45  61  42 /  70  20   0   0

.OUN...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.