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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Norman, OK

May 16, 2002Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2002, 10:28 PM CDT for Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2002, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kingfisher County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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
May 16, 11:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Loyal, 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
May 16, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 3039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 170328
TOROKC
OKC073-170400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1027 PM CDT THU MAY 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KINGFISHER COUNTY IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1027 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM  
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR OMEGA...MOVING SLOWLY
  SOUTHEAST.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  OMEGA

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 3591 9820 3574 9821 3576 9796 3593 9796

...SPEG.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	50 min
May 16, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	44 min
May 16, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	39 min
May 16, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	49 min
May 16, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	41 min
May 16, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Roger Mills	47 min
May 16, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	47 min
May 16, 11:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Logan	3 hr
May 16, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	47 min
May 16, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	44 min
May 16, 11:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer, Roger Mills	38 min
May 16, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	36 min
May 16, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	46 min
May 16, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	45 min
May 17, 12:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	34 min
May 17, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	46 min
May 17, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian	47 min
May 17, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	45 min
May 17, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	44 min
May 17, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	38 min
May 17, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	46 min
May 17, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	49 min
May 17, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Washita	44 min
May 17, 1:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	3 hr
May 17, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	34 min
May 17, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	71 min
May 17, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	65 min
May 17, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	35 min
May 17, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	65 min
May 17, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin	49 min
May 17, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Seminole	39 min
May 17, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Stephens	43 min
May 17, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	46 min
May 17, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	38 min
May 17, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal	43 min

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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.