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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Norman, OK

May 13, 2005Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 8:58 AM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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: May 13, 2005, 8:58 AM CDT (13:58 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2005, 9:47 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Garfield County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -435 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 13, 2:10 AM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:10 AM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 6:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 5:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 7:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 7:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:37 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 8:42 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 8:42 AM CDT, 16 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
May 12, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	49 min
May 12, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	37 min
May 12, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	25 min
May 12, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita	67 min
May 12, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	35 min
May 13, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian	44 min
May 13, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	37 min
May 13, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	28 min
May 13, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	26 min
May 13, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	33 min
May 13, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	40 min
May 13, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	40 min
May 13, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Major	48 min
May 13, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer	34 min
May 13, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	51 min
May 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	48 min
May 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	47 min
May 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	48 min
May 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	45 min
May 13, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	51 min
May 13, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble	43 min
May 13, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	49 min
May 13, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	25 min
May 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	45 min
May 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	49 min
May 13, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Foard	51 min
May 13, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Knox	37 min
May 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	50 min
May 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.