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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 2005Comanche County, Stephens County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2005, 5:32 AM CDT for Comanche County, Stephens County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 5, 2005, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Comanche County, OK, Stephens County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 3947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.7
Supercell composite: 12.9

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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 Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:58 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:13 AM CDT, 19 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
Jun 4, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	41 min
Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	48 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	30 min
Jun 4, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Stephens	59 min
Jun 4, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	41 min
Jun 4, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	58 min
Jun 4, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	48 min
Jun 4, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland	47 min
Jun 4, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	43 min
Jun 4, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	39 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	51 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	45 min
Jun 4, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	58 min
Jun 4, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Grady	3 hr
Jun 4, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	25 min
Jun 4, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Cleveland, Comanche, Grady, McClain	64 min
Jun 4, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	50 min
Jun 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson	30 min
Jun 4, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	41 min
Jun 4, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	50 min
Jun 4, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	51 min
Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Murray	45 min
Jun 4, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	41 min
Jun 4, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	52 min
Jun 4, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	41 min
Jun 4, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	54 min
Jun 4, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	29 min
Jun 4, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	41 min
Jun 4, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	39 min
Jun 4, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	36 min
Jun 4, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Marshall	43 min
Jun 5, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Pontotoc	23 min
Jun 5, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	38 min
Jun 5, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	47 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	43 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	49 min
Jun 4, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	38 min
Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	48 min
Jun 4, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	44 min
Jun 4, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer	36 min
Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Wichita	35 min
Jun 4, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	44 min
Jun 4, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer	19 min
Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita	31 min
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	46 min
Jun 4, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	40 min
Jun 4, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	43 min
Jun 4, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	40 min
Jun 4, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	32 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.