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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Norman, OK

March 26, 2007Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2007, 5:17 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 2007, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Garfield County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 28 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 262218
TOROUN
OKC047-262245-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0002.070326T2217Z-070326T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
517 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 517 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS OBSERVED A TORNADO
  10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTER...NEAR THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE 
ENID CITY LIMITS...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HUNTER.

ALTHOUGH TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM LIKELY WILL BE SHORT 
LIVED AND SMALL...THEY CAN STILL PRODUCE DAMAGE AND INJURY. MOVE TO A
STURDY SHELTER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3644 9780 3644 9774 3659 9763 3659 9782

$$

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1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS54 KOUN 262243
SVSOUN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
542 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007

OKC047-262251-
/O.EXP.KOUN.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070326T2245Z/
GARFIELD OK-
542 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GARFIELD COUNTY EXPIRES AT 545 PM CDT...

AT 542 PM... RADAR INDICATED THAT AN AREA OF ROTATION CENTERED 3 
MILE SOUTHEAST OF KREMLIN WAS WEAKENING. THEREFORE THE TORNADO 
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3644 9780 3644 9774 3659 9763 3659 9782

$$

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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.