Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 40, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 5:55 PM CDT for Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 3, 2002, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Woods County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 5:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Camp Houston, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
005 WFUS54 KOUN 032255 TOROKC OKC151-032330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 554 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WOODS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 554 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CAMP HOUSTON...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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 3690 9926 3673 9908 3683 9861 3699 9867 ...SPEG.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 45 min |
| Oct 3, 12:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 3 hr |
| Oct 3, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 3 hr |
| Oct 3, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 3 hr |
| Oct 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 44 min |
| Oct 3, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woods | 30 min |
| Oct 3, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woods | 30 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.