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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Norman, OK

May 13, 2005Foard County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2005, 5:24 PM CDT for Foard County, Texas. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2005, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2005, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Foard County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 13, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -569 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 526 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 132225
TOROUN
TXC155-132315-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0013.050513T2224Z-050513T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
524 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FOARD COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST 
FOARD COUNTY...NEAR THE FOARD COTTLE COUNTY LINE...MOVING EAST 
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL GENERALLY REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF THE WARNED
  COUNTY.

TAKE COVER NOW. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE
TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER. OTHERWISE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE
WALLS.

LAT...LON 3400 10004 3385 10006 3382 9979 3395 9977

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KOUN 132245
SVSOUN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
544 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005

TXC155-132315-
/O.CON.KOUN.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050513T2315Z/
FOARD TX-
544 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR FOARD COUNTY...

AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME 
SOUTHWEST FOARD COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL 
WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO WILL GENERALLY REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF THE WARNED
  COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3400 10004 3385 10006 3382 9979 3395 9977

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	67 min
May 13, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	49 min
May 13, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	25 min
May 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	45 min
May 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	49 min
May 13, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	51 min
May 13, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Knox	37 min
May 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	50 min
May 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	49 min
May 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	48 min

Nearby

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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.