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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 662, NWS Norman, OK

July 29, 2003Washita County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2003, 7:31 PM CDT for Washita County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 2003, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washita County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 29, 3:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA
328 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003

MERGER OF WEAK COLD AND SURFACE TROUGH OVER SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA WILL
REMAIN THE PRIMARY LIFTING MECHANISM FOR ISOLATED TO WIDELY
SCATTERED TSRA OVERNIGHT...WHILE UPSLOPE FLOW ACROSS COLORADO AND
WEST TEXAS COULD ALLOW DEVELOPMENT TO SPREAD INTO NORTHWEST PARTS OF
THE AREA. THE WEAK COLD FRONT MAY ALLOW ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT
DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. MEANWHILE...A SECONDARY COLD FRONT IS
PROJECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN KANSAS BY LATE WEDNESDAY. GIVEN THE
DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY WITH REGARD TO ITS TIMING AND STRENGTH...AND
THE WEAK CAPPING INVERSION THAT IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST OVER THE AREA
UNTIL THIS TIME...HAVE INCLUDED 20 POPS FOR ALL AREAS WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND FOR EASTERN AREAS EARLY THURSDAY.

LOW POPS APPEAR JUSTIFIED FOR NORTHERN SECTIONS OF OKLAHOMA FRIDAY
NIGHT AND SATURDAY AND FOR LESSER PORTIONS OF THE SAME AREAS SUNDAY
AND SUNDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT LAKES UPPER LOW WEAKENS AND MOVES
EAST...WHILE THE MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS EASTWARD OVER THE AREA.

OKC   70   92   70   96  / 20    5   20   20
HBR   69   92   68   97  / 20   20   20   10
SPS   71   96   71   97  / 20   20   20   10
GAG   64   90   64   98  / 20    5   20   10
PNC   68   92   68   96  /  5    5   20   20
DUA   73   97   72   95  / 20   20   20   20

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

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 11:55 AM CDT, 7 hours 36 minutes before

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-301200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1155 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED.

DISCUSSION...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY OVER PORTIONS
OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. THIS FRONT WILL ACT AS
A LIFTING MECHANISM FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. MOST OF THE
ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THE FRONT...MAINLY
AFFECTING AREAS NEAR AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40.

PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY JUL 30.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
              NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...80 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...10 PERCENT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
VERY HIGH AND EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL EXIST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
EARLY EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
PRE-FRONTAL TEMPERATURES AT OR ABOVE 100 WILL ENHANCE THE FIRE
DANGER. REFER TO OUR FIRE DANGER PRODUCTS FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THE FRONT WILL MOVE VERY LITTLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY...KEEPING A CHANCE
FOR STORMS IN THE SOUTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CHANCES FOR STORMS
WILL ALSO BE SEEN THIS WEEKEND...PRIMARILY OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST...SO THE FIRE DANGER
WILL REMAIN VERY HIGH.

THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
WEDNESDAY.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	40 min
Jul 30, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	44 min
Jul 30, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	46 min
Jul 30, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland	31 min
Jul 30, 6:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	38 min
Jul 30, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.