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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 548, NWS Norman, OK

June 1, 2008Alfalfa County, Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2008, 7:58 AM CDT for Alfalfa County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
Jun 1, 2008, 7:58 AM CDT (12:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2008, 8:45 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 1, 1:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 1, 5:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 2008-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 981 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 2008-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
981 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 Jun 1, 4:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 4:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
402 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

.DISCUSSION...
SURFACE FRONT CURRENTLY FROM TX PANHANDLE ACROSS N OK WILL LIKELY
REMAIN IN THE KS/OK AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. UPPER RIDGE
AXIS WILL BE OVER THE HIGH PLAINS TODAY AND MOVE FARTHER E INTO
THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND MONDAY. THIS EVOLUTION WOULD SUPPORT THE
FRONT EVENTUALLY LIFTING N INTO KS TONIGHT AND MONDAY... BUT
EFFECTS OF CONVECTION MAY HOLD IT FARTHER S. WILL CONTINUE LOW
POPS ACROSS MAINLY THE NE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND BACK THEM OFF
MONDAY-TUESDAY. INSTABILITY AND DEEP-LAYER SHEAR WILL BE ADEQUATE
FOR SEVERE STORMS... BUT STRENGTHENING CAP UNDER THE RIDGE AND
LIMITED FORCING WILL KEEP CHANCES OF INITIATION RELATIVELY LOW.
THERE REMAINS SOME CONCERN THAT STORMS WILL REDEVELOP LATER THIS
MORNING IN THE S KS AND N OK AREA - AS THEY HAVE DONE THE LAST
COUPLE MORNINGS - OR THE STUFF CURRENTLY IN E CO AND W KS WILL
HOLD TOGETHER AND MOVE E. SO CHANCES WILL EXIST ACROSS N OK THIS
MORNING ALONG WITH CHANCES OF REDEVELOPMENT LATE IN THE DAY.
STORMS ALSO MAY GET GOING OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS LATER TODAY
AND MOVE ESE/SE TONIGHT TOWARD N OK... BUT THINK THE BETTER
CHANCES WILL REMAIN N OF OUR AREA.

UPPER TROUGH NOW APPROACHING THE W COAST MAY BECOME A BIT PLAYER
IN OUR WX AROUND TUE NIGHT AND WED AS IT MOVES E ACROSS THE
PLAINS AND NUDGES THE FRONTAL ZONE BACK S INTO THE AREA. 06Z NAM
IS MORE BULLISH IN BRINGING AN MCS-ISH LOOKING AREA OF PRECIP
ACROSS N OK TUESDAY NIGHT. FOR NOW WILL MAINTAIN LOW POPS ACROSS
THE N TUE NIGHT THROUGH WED.

IT STILL LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE BREWING FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE
WEEK AS AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG LONGWAVE TROUGH IS PROGGED TO DIG
INTO THE W BY WED AND PROGRESS INTO THE PLAINS THU. MODELS HAVE
BEEN CONSISTENT IN DEPICTING THIS AMPLIFICATION AND MOVEMENT...
ADDING CONFIDENCE TO THE IDEA THAT AREAS FROM THE CENTRAL/S
PLAINS INTO THE MID-UPPER MS VALLEY AND GREAT LAKES - OR PARTS
THEREOF - MAY BE LOOKING AT A POTENTIALLY MAJOR SEVERE WX
OUTBREAK AROUND THURSDAY. OVER THE S PLAINS AREA... THERE ARE
SIGNS THAT CAPPING MAY DELAY THE MOST ACTIVE PART OF THE EVENT
UNTIL THU NIGHT - OR COULD DEACTIVATE IT ENTIRELY THIS FAR S. WILL
KEEP THE POPS IN THE CHANCE RANGE FOR NOW. WITH MUCH OF THE UPPER
TROF PROGGED TO LIFT NE TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK... AND A
LONGWAVE TROF PROGGED TO RELOAD OUT W... THE ASSOCIATED SFC FRONT
WOULD STALL OUT ACROSS THE AREA INTO FRIDAY. LOW POPS THUS ARE
CARRIED INTO FRIDAY BEFORE THE FRONT EITHER WASHES OUT OR LIFTS
BACK N OF THE AREA NEXT WEEKEND.

TEMPERATURES AND WINDS THROUGHOUT THE 7-DAY FORECAST ARE LARGELY
FROM GFS-MOS WITH ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. 24

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK  92  70  95  73 /  20  20  10  10
HOBART OK         97  71 101  73 /  10  10  10  10
WICHITA FALLS TX  98  73 100  74 /   0  10  10   0
GAGE OK           90  62  95  67 /  20  20  10  10
PONCA CITY OK     84  65  92  74 /  40  30  20  10
DURANT OK         94  70  95  73 /  10  10   0   0

&&

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

23/24
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 7:00 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
700 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-011700-
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-
700 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

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

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

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT
OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN... CENTRAL... AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

LOCATION...
THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATOKA... TO
CHICKASHA... TO CLINTON... TO ARNETT.

IMPACTS...
VERY LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND
INTENSE LIGHTNING WILL BE A SECONDARY CONCERN.

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS...
SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS SHOULD BE ONGOING AT THIS TIME ACROSS
NORTHWESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE REST OF THE RISK AREA
SHOULD PLAN FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS AS EARLY AS LATE THIS
MORNING... AND FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTINUED SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS INTO TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN
KANSAS AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS WILL BE
NORTH OF A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT... FROM NEAR CHEYENNE EASTWARD
THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA JUST NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. THE FRONT WILL
LIKELY DRIFT SOUTH LATER TODAY IN RESPONSE TO OUTFLOW AND
RAIN-COOLED AIR FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN
OKLAHOMA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY WILL FORM DURING THE DAY
NEAR AND NORTH OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY. MODERATE INSTABILITY AND
STRONG VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WILL SUPPORT A CONTINUED POTENTIAL FOR
ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY... ESPECIALLY NEAR
THE SURFACE BOUNDARY WHERE THE AIR WILL BE MORE UNSTABLE. THIS MEANS
THAT THE MAIN AREA OF SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WILL LIKELY SHIFT
SOUTHWARD WITH TIME TODAY... FROM NORTHERN OKLAHOMA THIS MORNING
TOWARD CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY WEAKEN AND BECOME LESS ORGANIZED THIS EVENING...
BUT THE SURFACE BOUNDARY IS LIKELY TO PERSIST TONIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA. THE BOUNDARY MAY LIFT NORTHWARD INTO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA
OVERNIGHT... SETTING UP CONDITIONS THAT WOULD FAVOR ANOTHER ROUND OF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA OR
ADJACENT PARTS OF KANSAS. THEREFORE THERE MAY BE A RENEWED RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.

PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT MONDAY JUNE 2.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
              NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...100 PERCENT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA EARLY MONDAY
MORNING... BUT THE CHANCE OF STORMS WILL DECREASE LATER IN THE DAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY...
MAINLY OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.

SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL MAY INCREASE AS EARLY AS WEDNESDAY... BUT
THE GREATER POTENTIAL FOR THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL BE ON THURSDAY. A
POWERFUL LATE-SPRING STORM SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER THE
ROCKIES BY MIDWEEK... AND THEN MOVE INTO THE PLAINS. THIS SYSTEM
COULD PRODUCE A SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK OVER PARTS OF THE CENTRAL
UNITED STATES... POSSIBLY INCLUDING PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS. ALL INTERESTS IN THE SOUTHERN PLAINS REGION ARE
ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES TO THE FORECAST REGARDING
SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT NOON
TODAY.

24

In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
600 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

OKZ004-011145-
HARPER OK-
600 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR HARPER COUNTY.

A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 62 MILES NORTH OF
ROSSTON TO 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSSTON AT 600 AM CDT...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 37 MPH.  THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO HARPER
COUNTY AROUND 630 AM... AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTAIN VERY STRONG
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

PEOPLE IN HARPER COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY.
LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

CMS
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
657 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

OKZ008-011245-
KAY OK-
657 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR KAY COUNTY.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF KILDARE AT 657 AM
CDT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER STORM WAS NEAR CHILOCCO... AND
A THIRD STRONG STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF TONKAWA.  ALL THESE STORMS
WILL CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN.

PEOPLE IN KAY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF PONCA CITY...SHOULD
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN
ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

CMS
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:19 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
719 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

OKZ004-005-010-011300-
WOODWARD OK-HARPER OK-WOODS OK-
719 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR HARPER...WOODS AND WOODWARD
COUNTIES.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 38 MILES NORTH OF
CAMP HOUSTON TO 9 MILES NORTH OF SELMAN AT 719 AM CDT...MOVING EAST
AT 41 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS.

PEOPLE IN HARPER...WOODS AND WOODWARD COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE
WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

CMS
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:51 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
751 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

OKZ007-011315-
GRANT OK-
751 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR GRANT COUNTY.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAKITA AT 751
AM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 48 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH ARE
LIKELY.

PEOPLE IN GRANT COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY.
LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

CMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Custer, Dewey23 min
May 31, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Custer, Dewey34 min
May 31, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Dewey27 min
May 31, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer47 min
May 31, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Kingfisher47 min
May 31, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Custer19 min
May 31, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo30 min
May 31, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Custer12 min
May 31, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian38 min
May 31, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita25 min
May 31, 10:56 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNBlaine, Caddo, Custer3 hr
May 31, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Washita50 min
May 31, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian, Grady48 min
May 31, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay40 min
May 31, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo43 min
May 31, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady25 min
Jun 1, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Grady42 min
Jun 1, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Grady, McClain47 min
Jun 1, 6:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay39 min
Jun 1, 6:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper51 min
Jun 1, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay52 min
Jun 1, 7:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble50 min
Jun 1, 8:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay, Noble40 min
Jun 1, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble, Payne43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.