Alert archive / Oklahoma / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this high wind warning at May 7, 2008, 12:58 AM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 71 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
- May 7, 2008, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2008, 2:09 AM CDT
- In force
- 71 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KOUN 070558 NPWOUN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1258 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2008 ...STRONG WINDS ACROSS SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA... OKZ033>036-070800- /O.NEW.KOUN.HW.W.0002.080507T0600Z-080507T0800Z/ HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HOLLIS...MANGUM...HOBART...ALTUS 1258 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA... FROM NEAR MANGUM AND HOBART SOUTH TO HOLLIS AND ALTUS THROUGH 3 AM. THESE WINDS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH OUTFLOW FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KOUN 070709 NPWOUN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 209 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARMING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... OKZ033>036-070815- /O.CAN.KOUN.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080507T0800Z/ HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HOLLIS...MANGUM...HOBART...ALTUS 209 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA THROUGH 3 AM... AS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFFECT THE AREA... HOWEVER NO EXTREME WINDS ARE EXPECTED. THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 42 min |
| May 7, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 47 min |
| May 7, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 44 min |
| May 7, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Grady | 38 min |
| May 7, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Stephens | 21 min |
| May 7, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie, Stephens | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 52 min |
| May 7, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 23 min |
| May 7, 10:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Oklahoma | 116 min |
| May 7, 12:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 22 hr |
| May 7, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 51 min |
| May 7, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Murray | 65 min |
| May 7, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie | 43 min |
| May 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Blaine, Caddo | 3 hr |
| May 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 38 min |
| May 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 40 min |
| May 7, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| May 7, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 40 min |
| May 7, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 65 min |
| May 7, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Murray | 52 min |
| May 7, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 42 min |
| May 7, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma | 50 min |
| May 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 25 min |
| May 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| May 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Coal, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray and 1 more | 61 min |
| May 7, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 36 min |
| May 7, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| May 7, 5:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 2 hr |
| May 7, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall | 60 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Logan | 3 hr |
| May 7, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 52 min |
| May 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 30 min |
| May 7, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Logan | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.