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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Norman, OK

March 21, 2005Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 21, 2005, 3:26 PM CST for Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 21, 2005, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 2005, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Alfalfa County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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
Mar 21, 12:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000
WFUS54 KOUN 212126
TOROUN
OKC003-212200-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0005.050321T2126Z-050321T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
326 PM CST MON MAR 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALFALFA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 320 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A   
DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTH OF 
AMORITA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15   MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3690 9841 3677 9825 3707 9776 3727 9799

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 2:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	34 min
Mar 21, 2:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Seminole	29 min
Mar 21, 2:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	36 min
Mar 21, 3:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Seminole	33 min
Mar 21, 3:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	38 min
Mar 21, 3:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	37 min
Mar 21, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	38 min
Mar 21, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	32 min
Mar 21, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	35 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.