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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 758, NWS Norman, OK

October 25, 2009Love County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2009, 8:41 PM CDT for Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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 25, 2009, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 2009, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Love County, OK

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 25, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-10-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2288 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
8.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Murray46 min
Oct 25, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Marshall42 min
Oct 26, 3:30 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryOUNAlfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major, Roger Mills and 2 more15 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.