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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2005, 5:39 PM CDT for Jackson County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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 31, 2005, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 306 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS THE AREA WILL PERSIST THIS EVENING. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PANHANDLES WILL LIKELY DEVELOP INTO A COMPLEX AND MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE AREA. WILL GO WITH AREAL WORDING IN MOST AREAS FOR THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PERSIST IN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS COUNTIES INTO TOMORROW MORNING. SHORTWAVE TROUGH AT 500 MB SLIDES TO THE EAST AND PRECIP SHOULD BE LESS WIDESPREAD TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT... BUT MAY DEPEND ON MESOSCALE EVOLUTION. MODELS DO SHOW A LITTLE BETTER CHANCE OF PRECIP DEVELOPMENT THURSDAY AS THE SHORTWAVE RIDGE MOVES EAST... SO HAVE EXPANDED GEOGRAPHY OF POPS... BUT HAVE KEEP CHANCES FAIRLY LOW. A BIT OF DISAGREEMENT IN THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS... BUT ALL GENERALLY KEEP SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW AND SOUTHWESTERLY MID LEVEL FLOW. SO WARM AND HUMID LOOK LIKE THE STORY. HAVE MADE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE EXTENDED. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW MUCH RAIN WE CAN GET AT OKLAHOMA CITY THIS EVENING. WE ARE CONTENDING FOR THE RECORD OF DRIEST MARCH THROUGH MAY PERIOD AT OKLAHOMA CITY ON RECORD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 64 80 64 86 / 50 30 20 20 HOBART OK 63 82 63 87 / 50 30 20 20 WICHITA FALLS TX 65 84 65 88 / 60 60 20 20 GAGE OK 59 81 61 87 / 50 20 20 20 PONCA CITY OK 62 80 62 86 / 70 50 20 20 DURANT OK 66 82 65 86 / 50 40 20 10 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 26
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 41 min |
| May 31, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 48 min |
| May 31, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 42 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.