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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Norman, OK

May 26, 2010Foard County, Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2010, 1:45 PM CDT for Foard County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 26, 2010, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2010, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Foard County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 25, 2:19 PM CDT, 23 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:19 PM CDT, 23 hours 26 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 26, 6:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	17 hr
May 26, 7:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woodward	3 hr
May 26, 8:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay, Noble	11 hr
May 26, 10:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Woodward	6 hr
May 26, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	38 min
May 26, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	36 min
May 26, 2:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Greer, Jackson	3 hr
May 26, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	59 min
May 26, 3:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	3 hr
May 26, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	38 min
May 26, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	37 min
May 26, 2:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Foard, Knox	3 hr
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Knox	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.