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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2006, 7:20 PM CDT for Canadian County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2006, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Canadian County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:27 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Sw El Reno, OK | ESTIMATED LOCATION |
| Apr 24, 7:27 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Sw El Reno, OK | UPDATED INFORMATION. TORNADO OCCURRED FROM 727 PM TO 733 PM SOUTHWEST OF EL RENO AND JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. |
| Apr 24, 7:32 PM CDT | TORNADO 1 | 6 Sw El Reno, OK | UPDATED INFORMATION. TORNADO OCCURRED FROM 732 PM TO 744 PM. TORNADO STRUCK EL RENO MUNICIPAL AIRPORT DAMAGING HANGARS AND PLANES. |
| Apr 24, 7:32 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Sw El Reno, OK | TORNADO AT EL RENO AIRPORT |
| Apr 24, 7:32 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 Sw El Reno, OK | UPDATED INFORMATION. TORNADO OCCURRED FROM 732 PM TO 744 PM. TORNADO STRUCK EL RENO MUNICIPAL AIRPORT DAMAGING HANGARS AND PLANES. |
| Apr 24, 7:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 6 W Yukon, OK | I-40 AND BANNER RD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOUN 250020 TOROUN OKC017-250045- /O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0013.060425T0020Z-060425T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 720 PM CDT MON APR 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CANADIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL RENO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE EL RENO. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 115 AND 129. 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 3553 9814 3543 9808 3552 9781 3565 9783 $$ ..SPEG.
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KOUN 250028 SVSOUN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 727 PM CDT MON APR 24 2006 OKC017-250045- /O.CON.KOUN.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060425T0045Z/ CANADIAN OK- 727 PM CDT MON APR 24 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR CANADIAN COUNTY... AT 727 PM CDT...A TORNADO IS OCCURRING ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL RENO. THE STORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS TORNADO IS MOVING TOWARD EL RENO. PEOPLE IN EL RENO NEED TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 115 AND 128. LAT...LON 3553 9814 3543 9808 3552 9781 3565 9783 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Grady | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Logan | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Canadian | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 58 min |
| Apr 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Stephens | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cotton | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Grady, Stephens | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Pontotoc | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 7 more | 17 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.