Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2005, 9:34 AM CDT for Kiowa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 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 25, 2005, 9:34 AM CDT (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2005, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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
- 709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 25, 3:03 AM CDT, 6 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:03 AM CDT, 6 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 303 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2005 .DISCUSSION... MCS MAKING ITS WAY S/SE ACROSS PARTS OF AREA THIS MORNING. LOOKS LIKE THIS ONE WILL STRUGGLE A LITTLE MORE THAN LAST NIGHTS TO HOLD TOGETHER... BUT SHOULD STILL PROVIDE SOME AREAS WITH RAIN THIS MORNING. AS THE LAST COUPLE OF NIGHTS HAVE SHOWN DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE MCS WILL NEED TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED AND THIS WILL MAKE FOR A LAST MINUTE DECISION ON POPS FOR THIS MORNING. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR PRECIP AS COLD FRONT TO OUR NORTH MOVES SOUTH ACROSS AREA THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT. WILL THEREFORE KEEP SOMEWHAT HIGHER POPS GOING THRU TONIGHT... WITH BEST CHANCE ACROSS W/SW OK AND N TX REGIONS BY THURSDAY. WITH THIS COLD FRONT ALONG WITH EXPECTED PRECIP AND CLOUD COVER TEMPS SHOULD REMAIN QUITE A BIT COOLER TODAY AND TOMORROW. WX PATTERN REMAINS UNSETTLED THRU UPCOMING HOLIDAY WEEKEND WITH MINOR DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS ALONG WITH AREA REMAINING ON BACK SIDE OF SURFACE HIGH OVER WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL ALSO PROVIDE POSSIBLE WAA TO HELP GENERATE PRECIP. THIS SHOULD HELP KEEP TEMPS DOWN MORE TOWARD NORMAL AS LOW LEVEL FLOW REMAINS MORE EAST TO SOUTHEASTERLY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 81 60 76 56 / 60 40 30 20 HOBART OK 84 60 76 56 / 60 60 40 30 WICHITA FALLS TX 89 64 78 58 / 60 60 60 30 GAGE OK 79 55 73 53 / 40 50 30 20 PONCA CITY OK 78 58 74 54 / 40 30 20 10 DURANT OK 86 64 79 59 / 40 40 40 30 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 30/30
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 25, 8:49 AM CDT, 45 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Local storm report, May 25, 9:01 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
901 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0844 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 4 WNW GOULD 34.69N 99.84W
05/25/2005 60 MPH HARMON OK PUBLIC
0844 AM HAIL 4 WNW GOULD 34.69N 99.84W
05/25/2005 0.75 INCH HARMON OK PUBLIC
PEA TO PENNY HAIL COVERING GROUND.
&&
DWSpecial weather statement, May 25, 9:13 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 913 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2005 TXZ085-086-251435- WICHITA TX-WILBARGER TX- 913 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR WICHITA AND WILBARGER COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF OKLAUNION AT 913 AM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM CONTAINS DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. ON ITS PRESENT PATH...THIS STORM WILL TRACK ALONG THE RED RIVER AND ENTER NORTHWEST WICHITA COUNTY BY ABOUT 10 AM. PEOPLE IN WICHITA AND WILBARGER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BURKBURNETT...IOWA PARK AND WICHITA FALLS...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Local storm report, May 25, 9:20 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
920 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0855 AM HAIL 6 SW DUKE 34.61N 99.65W
05/25/2005 0.75 INCH JACKSON OK PUBLIC
&&
DWLocal storm report, May 25, 9:28 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Local storm report, May 25, 9:34 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
934 AM CDT WED MAY 25 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0933 AM HAIL LAWTON 34.60N 98.42W
05/25/2005 0.88 INCH COMANCHE OK AMATEUR RADIO
SHERIDAN AND CACHE
&&
DWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon, Jackson | 42 min |
| May 25, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Stephens | 50 min |
| May 25, 9:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 52 min |
| May 25, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Stephens | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 26 min |
| May 25, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 46 min |
| May 25, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 31 min |
| May 25, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 40 min |
| May 25, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 51 min |
| May 25, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 46 min |
| May 25, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 29 min |
| May 25, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2005Every 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.