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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Norman, OK

May 10, 2006Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2006, 4:05 AM CDT for Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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: May 10, 2006, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2006, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 1424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1426 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 May 10, 3:27 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 3:27 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 11:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 2:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 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
May 9, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	51 min
May 9, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	46 min
May 9, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	45 min
May 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Coal	3 hr
May 9, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	5 hr
May 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	33 min
May 9, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	42 min
May 9, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal	38 min
May 9, 8:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka	3 hr
May 9, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	15 min
May 9, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	42 min
May 9, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	51 min
May 9, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	64 min
May 9, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	59 min
May 9, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	44 min
May 9, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	37 min
May 9, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	38 min
May 9, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	36 min
May 9, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	54 min
May 9, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	39 min
May 9, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	40 min
May 9, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	41 min
May 9, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	42 min
May 10, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	46 min
May 10, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	38 min
May 10, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	46 min
May 10, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	32 min
May 10, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	39 min
May 10, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	50 min
May 10, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	38 min
May 10, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	51 min
May 10, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	23 min
May 10, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	48 min
May 10, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	14 min
May 10, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	15 min
May 10, 4:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	47 min
May 10, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	37 min
May 10, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	49 min
May 10, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	43 min
May 10, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	55 min
May 10, 5:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	32 min
May 10, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Marshall	37 min
May 10, 6:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	39 min
May 9, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	62 min
May 9, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hardeman	39 min
May 9, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	42 min
May 9, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita, Wilbarger	49 min
May 9, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	52 min
May 10, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay, Wichita	23 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.