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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 647, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 21, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT for Kingfisher County, Logan County, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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 21, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 21, 8:32 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 21, 8:32 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
832 PM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007
.UPDATE...
ELEVATED CONVECTION INCREASING RAPIDLY IN RESPONSE TO DEEPENING
TROF AIDED BY FRONTOGENETIC FORCING N OF STRONG COLD FRONT. 00Z
OUN SOUNDING SHOWS DECENT ELEVATED INSTABILITY... 1000-1500 J/KG
FOR PARCELS LIFTED FROM AROUND 850 MB. THIS ALONG WITH VERY STRONG
DEEP-LAYER SHEAR - UP TO 95 KT IN 0-6KM LAYER - WILL SUPPORT A GOOD
POTENTIAL FOR SMALL HAIL AND PERHAPS ISOLATED STORMS WITH
MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL THIS EVENING. FURTHER INCREASE IN COVERAGE
EXPECTED THROUGH THE NIGHT PER MODEL QPFS... ALTHOUGH MODE MAY
TREND TOWARD LESS CONVECTION AND MORE STRATIFORM PRECIP LATE
TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. FORECAST/GRIDS HAVE CURRENT TRENDS REFLECTED
WELL. WE WILL ONLY MAKE SOME RELATIVELY SMALL ADJUSTMENTS AT THIS
TIME... TO ADD MENTION OF SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN THE CURRENT
ACTIVE CORRIDOR FROM LAWTON TO W/N OF OKC TO E OF ENID.
STRONGER WINDS BEGINNING TO APPEAR AT SFC ACROSS MAINLY SW
QUADRANT OF OK AS 40-50KT WINDS AT 1 KM AGL BEGIN TO MIX DOWN IN
STRONG POST-FRONTAL COLD ADVECTION. SEVERAL GUSTS 40-48 MPH BEING
SEEN ON OK MESONET AND FROM SEVERAL METARS. WIND ADVISORY
CONTINUES. 24
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK 43 48 41 58 / 100 80 30 20
HOBART OK 43 50 40 62 / 90 60 20 0
WICHITA FALLS TX 44 51 41 62 / 80 60 20 0
GAGE OK 41 55 41 63 / 40 20 20 0
PONCA CITY OK 45 50 39 59 / 90 80 40 30
DURANT OK 52 52 44 59 / 70 70 40 20
&&
.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM CDT MONDAY FOR OKZ012-016>019-021>025-
027>029-033>041-044>046-050.
TX...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM CDT MONDAY FOR TXZ083>090.
&&
22/24Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 21, 9:28 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 21, 8:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 828 PM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007 OKZ023-220200- CADDO OK- 828 PM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR CADDO COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF ALBERT AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF FORT COBB AT 828 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL INCLUDE BINGER...GRACEMONT...FORT COBB...AND WASHITA. BURKE
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 25 min |
| Oct 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma | 39 min |
| Oct 21, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 39 min |
| Oct 21, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Noble, Payne | 39 min |
| Oct 21, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Noble, Payne | 46 min |
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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.