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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 604, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2007, 6:59 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 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
- Oct 14, 2007, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Comanche County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 14, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 253 PM CDT SUN OCT 14 2007 .DISCUSSION... ACTIVE WEATHER REGIME EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT MOST AREAS...AND PERHAPS TOMORROW ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF OKLAHOMA. COLD FRONT MAKING SLOW PROGRESS ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AS CAP WEAKENS. SIGNIFICANT LARGE SCALE LIFT OCCURRING AND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING OVER THE REGION AS STRONG STORM SYSTEM MOVES OUT OF THE SOUTHERN/CENTRAL ROCKIES. EXPECT THE MOST WIDESPREAD STORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF OKLAHOMA OVERNIGHT TONIGHT ALONG COLD FRONT. PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE WIND AND HAIL...PRIMARILY WITH ANY DISCRETE CELLS AHEAD OF FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. AREAS NEAR/SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40 AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 WILL BE IN A REGION WHERE SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER COULD OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING...WHERE INSTABILITY AND LOWER-LEVEL WILL BE MAXIMIZED BEFORE STORMS GET MORE LINEAR AND ELEVATED. THIS MENTIONED AREA WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY...AS THERE WILL BE CONCERN FOR TORNADOES MAINLY WITH ANY LONG-LIVED AND DISCRETE SUPERCELLS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SCENARIO LAID OUT IN HAZARDOUS WEATHER GRAPHICS AND OUTLOOK...WHERE PER COORD WITH SPC UPPED SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF FORECAST AREA TO MODERATE RISK. HEAVY RAIN WILL BECOME A CONCERN TOWARD AND AFTER MIDNIGHT AS UPPER SYSTEM STARTS TO PULL OUT AND FLOW BECOMES MORE PARALLEL WITH BAROCLINIC ZONE. MINIMAL CHANGES TO PERIODS FARTHER OUT...WITH TRANSIENT SYSTEMS THROUGH THE WEEK. BUMPED POPS UPWARD TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS MOISTURE TRIES TO RETURN QUICKLY AHEAD OF ANOTHER POTENT AND PROGRESSIVE STORM SYSTEM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 58 71 53 80 / 80 30 10 10 HOBART OK 56 72 53 80 / 60 20 10 10 WICHITA FALLS TX 62 75 56 81 / 60 40 20 10 GAGE OK 48 69 46 78 / 20 10 10 10 PONCA CITY OK 55 67 48 76 / 90 20 10 10 DURANT OK 64 73 58 81 / 70 80 30 10 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 22/11
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 14, 12:08 PM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1208 PM CDT SUN OCT 14 2007
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-151200-
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-
1208 PM CDT SUN OCT 14 2007
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS
EVENING IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. A SLIGHT RISK
COVERS THE REST OF THE NORMAN FORECAST AREA THROUGH TONIGHT.
LOCATION...
THE MODERATE RISK AREA IS LOCATED EAST OF A LINE FROM SEYMOUR TEXAS
TO CORDELL OKLAHOMA...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PURCELL TO RINGLING.
THIS INCLUDES...AND IS CENTERED AROUND THE CITIES OF LAWTON AND
WICHITA FALLS.
TIMING...
THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER...ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERATE
RISK AREA...WILL BE FROM 4 PM TO 10 PM. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER MAY
CONTINUE AFTER 10 PM.
IMPACTS...
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF TENNIS BALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH WILL BE
THE MAIN CONCERN. HOWEVER... TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS...
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE
RISK AREA SHOULD PLAN FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS FROM LATE THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION...
AN UPPER LEVEL STORM AND SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST
ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO
DRAW A MODEST RETURN OF GULF MOISTURE...WITH DEWPOINTS HOLDING IN
THE LOW TO MIDDLE 60S. THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM BETWEEN
2 AND 4 PM...BEGINNING IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND DEVELOPING
SOUTHWARD INTO TEXAS. STRONG DEEP LAYER WIND SHEAR WILL FAVOR
SUPERCELLS EARLY. THE STORMS MAY INTERACT TO FORM LINE SEGMENTS WITH
EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS FARTHER NORTH...WHILE THERE WILL BE A GREATER
CHANCE FOR LONG LIVED SUPERCELLS IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA.
DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY...AND
TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A
MORE DISTINCT THREAT FOR TORNADOES...HOWEVER...MAY DEVELOP IN THE
MODERATE RISK AREA DURING THE EVENING...IF DISCRETE SUPERCELLS BEGIN
TO INTERACT WITH STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL WINDS.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE AT SPEEDS BETWEEN 35 AND 45 MPH TODAY AND
TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP VERY QUICKLY. PEOPLE ARE URGED
TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE FOR WEATHER INFORMATION.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT MONDAY OCT 15.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...80 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE COLD FRONT MONDAY... WITH A
FEW STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. HEAVY RAIN WILL
ALSO BE A CONCERN. AN UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL PERSIST
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AS SEVERAL SYSTEMS MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S.
ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS POSSIBLE BETWEEN WEDNESDAY AND
FRIDAY.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
MONDAY.
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
654 PM CDT SUN OCT 14 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 PM HAIL 8 S TALOGA 35.92N 98.96W
10/14/2007 E0.88 INCH DEWEY OK PUBLIC
0644 PM HAIL ALTUS 34.64N 99.33W
10/14/2007 E0.75 INCH JACKSON OK AMATEUR RADIO
REPORTED AT ALTUS AFB
&&
FM/DWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Dewey, Major | 43 min |
| Oct 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson | 43 min |
| Oct 14, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey | 39 min |
| Oct 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 38 min |
| Oct 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Dewey | 44 min |
| Oct 14, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 51 min |
| Oct 14, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.