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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 565, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2009, 8:44 PM CDT for Grant County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 76 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
- Jul 20, 2009, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 76 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Grant County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 3054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 Jul 20, 7:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 7:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 738 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2009 .DISCUSSION...TSTMS BEGINNING TO INCREASE ACROSS KS IN VCNTY OF SURFACE BOUNDARIES. WILL ADJUST ORIENTATION OF THE POPS FOR TONIGHT GIVEN THE EXPECTED EVOLUTION OF CONVECTIVE COMPLEX AND WILL KEEP HIGHEST POPS IN NCNTRL OK. WILL ALSO TRIM POPS BACK IN SWRN PARTS OF THE FA WHERE WARM MID LEVEL TEMPS WILL WORK AGAINST MORE SIDESPREAD DEVELOPMENT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 645 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2009/ AVIATION...DIFFICULT TO PICK OUT THE BEST MODEL SIGNAL FOR THUNDERSTORM ORGANIZATION AND TIMING. OUR BEST ESTIMATE FOLLOWS CLOSE TO THE NAM SIMULATED REFLECTIVITY. EXPECT THE LOW LEVEL JET TO INITIATE SCATTERED THUNDER NEAR A WARM FRONT IN NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL OK FROM 1-4 UTC. MEANWHILE...SHARP UPPER FORCING SHOULD RESULT IN AN ORGANIZED MCS OVER KANSAS...THAT WILL SWEEP THROUGH NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OVERNIGHT. WE HAVE INDICATED PASSAGE OF BOTH AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND COLD FRONT IN MOST TAFS. THUNDER WILL BE MORE SPARSE AT WESTERN SITES...CAPPED BY +14 C AIR AT 700 MB. BURKE PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 342 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2009/ DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE ENTIRE CWA BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. EXPECT ONE OR MORE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES ACROSS THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND OVERNIGHT. STRONGEST SIGNAL IN ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS IS TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE NORMAN CWA. MODELS SHOW SOME DEVELOPMENT SOUTHWEST ALONG/AHEAD OF THE FRONT TOWARD THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE CWA BUT LOW LEVEL FLOW ABOVE THE SURFACE IS VEERED SO AM UNSURE HOW HIGH THE CHANCES OR HOW WIDESPREAD THE COVERAGE WILL BE. THE OTHER SIGNAL IS OF STORMS MOVING SOUTH INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND HAVE SOMEWHAT HIGHER POPS OUT WEST FOR THIS SCENARIO. MANY OF THE MODELS SHOW THE AREA FROM CENTRAL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA BEING BETWEEN COMPLEXES AND THEREFORE HAVE LOWER POPS ALONG THIS AXIS... BUT WITH THE NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN AND THE ADDED SUPPORT OF THE FRONT... WILL SEE HOW PRECIPITATION DEVELOPS AND EVOLVES THIS EVENING AND ADJUST FROM THERE. STORM COMPLEXES MAY STILL BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF THE AREA TUESDAY MORNING BUT THEN WILL BE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA. SOMEWHAT LOWER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TOMORROW BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. STORM COMPLEXES FROM THE HIGHER TERRAIN WILL MAINLY AFFECT AREAS WEST OF THE CWA TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT... BUT HAVE ADDED LOW POPS SOUTHWEST FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EASTERN EDGE OF A COMPLEX MOVING INTO THE AREA. OTHERWISE WE REMAIN UNDER A NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN THROUGH THE EXTENDED WITH VARIOUS SHORTWAVES MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE FLOW. PREDICTABILITY OF SPECIFIC WAVES ALWAYS PRESENT A CHALLENGE BUT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE MIDWEST LOOKS TO BE THIS WEEKEND. GFS DOES NOT DEVELOP MUCH PRECIP SOUTHWEST TOWARD THE AREA WHILE THE ECMWF DOES DEVELOP MORE QPF THAN THE GFS. HAVE NOT MADE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED WITH THIS PACKAGE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 68 91 64 90 / 40 20 0 0 HOBART OK 71 94 66 90 / 30 20 10 10 WICHITA FALLS TX 72 96 68 88 / 30 30 20 20 GAGE OK 65 89 60 88 / 40 10 0 10 PONCA CITY OK 67 87 60 88 / 60 20 0 0 DURANT OK 70 91 66 86 / 40 30 10 10 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 02/22
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 11:55 AM CDT, 8 hours 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 8:13 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 813 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2009 OKZ007-210200- GRANT OK- 813 PM CDT MON JUL 20 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR GRANT COUNTY. A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF WAKITA AT 811 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. ON ITS CURRENT TRACK...THE STORM WILL ENTER GRANT COUNTY AROUND 845 PM...BETWEEN MANCHESTER AND RENFROW. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN GRANT COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 72 min |
| Jul 20, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major, Woods, Woodward | 94 min |
| Jul 20, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Major | 79 min |
| Jul 20, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 69 min |
| Jul 20, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Major, Woodward | 79 min |
| Jul 20, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major | 25 min |
| Jul 21, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 67 min |
| Jul 21, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 67 min |
| Jul 21, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher and 1 more | 71 min |
| Jul 21, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 67 min |
| Jul 21, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Custer, Kiowa, Washita | 78 min |
| Jul 21, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Stephens and 1 more | 78 min |
| Jul 21, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 80 min |
| Jul 21, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay, Wichita | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Wilbarger | 90 min |
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.