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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 617, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2005, 11:59 AM CDT for Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 19, 2005, 11:59 AM CDT (16:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2005, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 Oct 19, 10:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 10:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 48 min |
| Oct 19, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon | 44 min |
| Oct 19, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Major, Woodward | 41 min |
| Oct 19, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods | 41 min |
| Oct 19, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer | 40 min |
| Oct 19, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 61 min |
| Oct 19, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 31 min |
| Oct 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Harper | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woodward | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woods | 66 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.