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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT for Logan County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2003, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Logan County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOUN 161800 TOROKC OKC083-161845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1259 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 1259 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF GUTHRIE...NEAR THE LOGAN COUNTY LINE...MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GUTHRIE AND MERIDIAN 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. ALTHOUGH TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM LIKELY WILL BE SHORT LIVED AND SMALL...THEY CAN STILL PRODUCE DAMAGE AND INJURY. MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3570 9748 3571 9734 3585 9719 3590 9753 $$ 1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 45 min |
| May 15, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 51 min |
| May 15, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 60 min |
| May 15, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey | 50 min |
| May 15, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 67 min |
| May 15, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 38 min |
| May 15, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 52 min |
| May 15, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills, Washita | 81 min |
| May 16, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon | 25 min |
| May 16, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward | 47 min |
| May 16, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 31 min |
| May 16, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 31 min |
| May 16, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 16, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 40 min |
| May 16, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major | 48 min |
| May 16, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 31 min |
| May 16, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 38 min |
| May 16, 1:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Major | 23 min |
| May 16, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Washita | 45 min |
| May 16, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble and 1 more | 59 min |
| May 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 16, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 44 min |
| May 16, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Love, Murray | 60 min |
| May 16, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Lincoln, Noble, Payne | 47 min |
| May 16, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Pontotoc | 63 min |
| May 16, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 56 min |
| May 16, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 16, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Hughes | 51 min |
| May 16, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 16, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love | 41 min |
| May 16, 3:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 16, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Murray | 34 min |
| May 16, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Pontotoc | 49 min |
| May 16, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 29 min |
| May 16, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Marshall | 25 min |
| May 16, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 54 min |
| May 16, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 62 min |
| May 16, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Marshall | 28 min |
| May 16, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 46 min |
| May 16, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 49 min |
| May 16, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 26 min |
| May 16, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 49 min |
| May 16, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 16, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Hughes | 32 min |
| May 16, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kingfisher | 28 min |
| May 16, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Payne | 53 min |
| May 16, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 44 min |
| May 16, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 30 min |
| May 16, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Payne | 64 min |
| May 16, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Logan | 45 min |
| May 16, 2:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 117 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.