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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Norman, OK

March 11, 2007Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2007, 1:33 AM CST for Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
Mar 11, 2007, 1:33 AM CST (07:33 UTC)
Expired
Mar 11, 2007, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

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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 Mar 10, 9:42 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 9:42 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
942 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

.DISCUSSION...
RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENTERED WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF OUR TEXAS AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER OUR
FORECAST AREA IS QUITE STABLE... AND THE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED
CONSIDERABLY AS THEY HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN. THE
UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM THAT HAS HELPED GENERATE THE
PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST... SO RAIN IS
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT... AND SPREAD EAST. AS THE LOW-
LEVEL JET INCREASES OVERNIGHT... IT MAY HELP A FEW THUNDERSTORMS
TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND MAYBE SOME HAIL.

THE ONLY CHANGES PLANNED FOR THIS EVENING ARE TO SLIGHTLY MODIFY
POPS TO ACCOUNT FOR THE LATEST EXPECTATIONS.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 228 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007/

DISCUSSION...
MAIN FOCUS IS ON UPPER LOW MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL ROCKIES THIS
AFTN. THIS LOW WILL CONT TO AMPLIFY THIS EVENING AND CLOSE OFF TO
OUR WEST LATE TONIGHT. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP TO OUR WEST THIS
EVENING AND WORK ITS WAY EAST ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA INTO
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT AS WE COME UNDER THE INFLUENCE FROM
UPPER LOW. WE WILL ALSO SEE STRENGTHENING LLJ AND SFC FRONT ALSO AID
IN PRECIP DEVELOPMENT. AS CLOSED LOW MOVES SLOWLY SOUTH AND
SOUTHEAST INTO WEST TX ON SUNDAY SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL BE SET UP IN A
VERY FAVORABLE AREA FOR UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE ALONG WITH CONT WAA
AND SFC FRONT. THIS WILL MEAN WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS MOST IF NOT ALL OF OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY INTO
SUNDAY NIGHT. THIS SHOULD ALSO RESULT IN MANY AREAS GETTING MUCH
NEEDED RAINFALL. WIDESPREAD 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ARE NOT OUT OF THE
QUESTION BY MONDAY MORNING. ENOUGH INSTABILITY MAY EXIST TO THE
SOUTH OF THE SFC FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN OK AND N TX FOR A FEW
STRONGER STORMS TO BE POSSIBLE.

MODELS CONT TO WOBBLE UPPER LOW OVER WEST TEXAS THROUGH TUESDAY
BEFORE PUSHING IT TOWARD THE EAST BY WEDNESDAY. WILL SPREAD POPS
FURTHER INTO THE FUTURE WITH BETTER CHANCES REMAINING ACROSS
SOUTHERN OK AND N TX CLOSER TO CENTER OF UPPER LOW.

MAY GET A BREAK IN THE PRECIP ON WED BEFORE ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES
SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA ON THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE
OF RAIN TO THE AREA... ALTHOUGH AMOUNTS WILL BE MUCH LIGHTER THAN
WHAT IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER THE NEXT 48HRS. GFS DOES SHOW AREA OF
PRECIP DEVELOPING OVER AREA ON FRI WITH AN EMBEDDED WAVE... HOWEVER
IT APPEARS THAT THIS COULD BE AIDED BY SOME FEEDBACK ISSUES AND WILL
NOT BITE OFF ON THIS AT THIS POINT LEAVING FORECAST DRY BEYOND THURSDAY.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK  55  60  51  65 /  50  90  60  40
HOBART OK         54  60  50  65 /  80  90  70  40
WICHITA FALLS TX  57  64  54  65 /  70  90  80  50
GAGE OK           48  55  45  67 /  80  90  50  30
PONCA CITY OK     50  56  46  67 /  30  80  40  30
DURANT OK         57  65  56  63 /  30  80  80  60

&&

.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

23/11
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 10, 12:03 PM CST, 13 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1203 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-111200-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1203 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN
SECTIONS OF OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A STORM
SYSTEM MOVING FROM THE ROCKIES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THE SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA MAINLY AFTER
MIDNIGHT.  LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY REMAIN LIMITED AND ARE
CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO BE LOW ENOUGH THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
NOT LIKELY... HOWEVER THE INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE SOMEWHAT THROUGH
THE NIGHT AND MAY BE SUFFICIENT FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE
SMALL HAIL AND MAY APPROACH MARGINALLY SEVERE LEVELS.

PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CST SUNDAY MAR 11.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
              NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...80 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...20 PERCENT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD
ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN... CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS ON SUNDAY. INSTABILITY MAY INCREASE SUFFICIENTLY FOR
LOW CHANCES OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS... ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. IN ADDITION... THE STORM SYSTEM WILL ONLY
MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE REGION THIS WEEKEND ALLOWING SOME AREAS TO
RECEIVE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
ON SUNDAY MARCH 11.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 10, 10:07 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1007 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

TXZ083-084-110430-
HARDEMAN TX-FOARD TX-
1007 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR FOARD AND HARDEMAN COUNTIES.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAZARE AT
1007 PM CST...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED AT
THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS
TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY.
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 10:33 PM CST, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1033 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

OKZ033-036-TXZ083-110500-
JACKSON OK-HARMON OK-HARDEMAN TX-
1033 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR HARDEMAN...HARMON AND
JACKSON COUNTIES.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GOODLETT TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLETT AT 1033 PM CST...MOVING
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP. SMALL
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE CURRENTLY EXPECTED.

PEOPLE IN HARDEMAN...HARMON AND JACKSON COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY
OF QUANAH...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR
WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 11:05 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1105 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

OKZ036-TXZ083-085-110530-
JACKSON OK-HARDEMAN TX-WILBARGER TX-
1105 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR HARDEMAN...JACKSON AND
WILBARGER COUNTIES.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF QUANAH AT 1105 PM
CST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE
LIKELY.

PEOPLE IN HARDEMAN...JACKSON AND WILBARGER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE
CITY OF QUANAH...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN
FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 11:29 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1129 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

OKZ036-TXZ083-085-110600-
JACKSON OK-HARDEMAN TX-WILBARGER TX-
1129 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR HARDEMAN...JACKSON AND
WILBARGER COUNTIES.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF QUANAH AT 1129 PM
CST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...AND
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED.

PEOPLE IN HARDEMAN...JACKSON AND WILBARGER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE
CITY OF QUANAH...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN
FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 11:50 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1150 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

OKZ033-034-036-TXZ083-084-110630-
JACKSON OK-GREER OK-HARMON OK-HARDEMAN TX-FOARD TX-
1150 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR FOARD...GREER...HARDEMAN...
HARMON AND JACKSON COUNTIES.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF
MADGE TO 24 MILES WEST OF LAZARE AT 1150 PM CST...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH. WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE LIKELY.

PEOPLE IN FOARD...GREER...HARDEMAN...HARMON AND JACKSON COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE CITY OF QUANAH...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION
CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Mar 11, 12:48 AM CST, 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis62 min
Mar 11, 1:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson49 min
Mar 11, 1:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Kiowa, Tillman52 min
Mar 11, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson37 min
Mar 11, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens38 min
Mar 11, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens29 min
Mar 11, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens28 min
Mar 11, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWilbarger45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.