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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Norman, OK

May 19, 2010Kay County, Noble County, Payne County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2010, 6:52 AM CDT for Kay County, Noble County, Payne County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 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 19, 2010, 6:52 AM CDT (11:52 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2010, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:54 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 19, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1300 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 19, 5:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 5:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 4:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 3:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 3:52 AM CDT, 3 hours before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 4:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 4:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 4:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 5:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 11:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	36 min
May 19, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	61 min
May 19, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	41 min
May 19, 1:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	48 min
May 19, 2:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	38 min
May 19, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	62 min
May 19, 3:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woodward	6 hr
May 19, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey, Major	66 min
May 19, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey, Major	53 min
May 19, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	40 min
May 19, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major	51 min
May 19, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	65 min
May 19, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne	63 min
May 19, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	53 min
May 19, 6:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods, Woodward	4 hr
May 19, 7:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Kay	4 hr
May 19, 8:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	24 hr
May 19, 9:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 9 more	13 hr
May 19, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay, Noble	37 hr
May 19, 2:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	37 hr
May 19, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	63 min
May 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	34 min
May 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Dewey, Roger Mills	49 min
May 19, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	63 min
May 19, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	49 min
May 19, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Dewey	51 min
May 19, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Woodward	64 min
May 19, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan	49 min
May 19, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	38 min
May 19, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	53 min
May 19, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne	64 min
May 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	47 min
May 19, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	60 min
May 19, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	24 min
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	66 min
May 19, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	37 min
May 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	60 min
May 19, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	56 min
May 19, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	37 min
May 19, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie	50 min
May 19, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.