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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

August 5, 2011Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2011, 4:40 PM CDT for Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 20 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 2011, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2011, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK

County Roger Mills County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2011-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 182 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2011-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 5, 1:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 11:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1145 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-061100-
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-
1145 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

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

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. ISOLATED
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS MAY OCCUR.

DISCUSSION...
AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LEFT BEHIND BY A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS
AS WELL AS A WEAK SURFACE FRONT WILL REMAIN ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA
THIS AFTERNOON. THESE BOUNDARIES... COMBINED WITH STRONG
SURFACE HEATING... MAY LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING ACROSS PRIMARILY
NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. THOUGH WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY WILL BOTH BE
WEAK LIMITING STORM ORGANIZATION... RAIN EVAPORATING INTO HOT AND
DRY AIR BELOW CLOUD BASE COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT SATURDAY AUG 6.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
              NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...60 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...40 PERCENT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
DANGEROUS HEAT WILL CONTINUE. AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IS IN
EFFECT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST VERSION OF THIS PRODUCT FOR MORE
INFORMATION.

LONG-TERM DROUGHT AND HOT...DRY WEATHER...WILL CONTINUE TO ENHANCE
THE RISK OF WILDFIRES TODAY... ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS
AND THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF OKLAHOMA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THROUGH MONDAY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY IN NORTHERN
OKLAHOMA AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ENHANCED BY OUTFLOW AT TIMES REMAINS
IN THE AREA. FROM TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORM
COMPLEXES MAY MOVE OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
MODERATE SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE
WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THESE STRONGER WINDS ALONG WITH HOT
WEATHER WITH LITTLE RAINFALL... WILL ELEVATE WILDFIRE CONCERNS
SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 5 AM
SATURDAY.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:46 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
346 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

OKZ014-052100-
ROGER MILLS OK-
346 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR ROGER MILLS COUNTY.

AT 346 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST
OF REYDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...

MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE ALERT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3587 9975 3569 9954 3558 9992 3571 9999

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:08 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
408 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

OKZ014-052130-
ROGER MILLS OK-
408 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR ROGER MILLS COUNTY.

AT 408 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
ROLL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...

MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE ALERT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3579 9991 3585 9965 3584 9962 3586 9960
      3586 9959 3586 9956 3572 9945 3558 9982

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:40 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
440 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

OKZ009-014-052200-
ELLIS OK-ROGER MILLS OK-
440 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR ELLIS AND ROGER MILLS
COUNTIES.

AT 440 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CRAWFORD...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...

MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE ALERT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3602 9968 3586 9951 3569 9977 3582 9992

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 3:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNRoger Mills14 min
Aug 5, 4:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNRoger Mills22 min
Aug 5, 5:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant19 min
Aug 5, 5:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant18 min
Aug 5, 6:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNNoble19 min
Aug 5, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay43 min

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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.