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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Norman, OK

June 8, 2005Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2005, 7:23 PM CDT for Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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 8, 2005, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Woods County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 4205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 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 Jun 8, 2:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 12:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:44 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:09 PM CDT, 14 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 9, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	47 min
Jun 9, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	25 min
Jun 9, 9:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	2 hr
Jun 9, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	41 min
Jun 9, 11:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln	2 hr
Jun 9, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian	2 hr
Jun 9, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	34 min
Jun 9, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	52 min
Jun 9, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	47 min
Jun 9, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Woodward	44 min
Jun 9, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	34 min
Jun 9, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	41 min
Jun 9, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Dewey	24 min
Jun 9, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	34 min
Jun 9, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	34 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.