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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 2005Kiowa County, Tillman County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2005, 7:40 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Tillman County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 5, 2005, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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
Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 3466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 060041
TOROUN
OKC075-141-060115-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0033.050606T0040Z-050606T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
740 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA
  TILLMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 740 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS OBSERVED A TORNADO
  3 MILES WEST OF SNYDER...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

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

LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE FROM LAKE TOM STEED SOUTH THROUGH MOUNTAIN 
PARK AND SNYDER.

TAKE SHELTER NOW

LAT...LON 3468 9893 3468 9905 3452 9909 3451 9892

$$

FOSTER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KOUN 060106
SVSOUN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
803 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

OKC075-141-060115-
/O.CON.KOUN.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050606T0115Z/
KIOWA OK-TILLMAN OK-
803 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR TILLMAN AND KIOWA
COUNTIES...

AT 803 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES
WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SNYDER...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SNYDER

SPOTTERS REPORTED THE ORIGINAL TORNADO DISSIPATED.  
HOWEVER...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONGLY ROTATING 
STORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP ANOTHER TORNADO AT ANY TIME.  
RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN KIOWA AND NORTHERN TILLMAN COUNTIES SHOULD 
TAKE SHELTER NOW FROM THIS SEVERE STORM. 

IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO THREAT... THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS
DAMAGING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS OR LARGER.

LAT...LON 3468 9893 3468 9905 3452 9909 3451 9892

$$

FOSTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kiowa	33 min
Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	48 min
Jun 5, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	27 min
Jun 5, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	38 min
Jun 5, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	58 min
Jun 5, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa	60 min
Jun 5, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	38 min
Jun 5, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	34 min
Jun 5, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	54 min
Jun 5, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	56 min
Jun 5, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	29 min
Jun 5, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	16 min
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	30 min
Jun 6, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	46 min
Jun 6, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	41 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.