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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

February 2, 2012Ellis County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Feb 2, 2012, 10:09 PM CST for Ellis County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 21 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: Feb 2, 2012, 10:09 PM CST (04:09 UTC)
Expired: Feb 2, 2012, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

County Ellis County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 649 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 2, 5:20 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 5:20 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 2, 7:00 PM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 2, 8:38 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 2, 9:18 PM CST, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 2, 9:18 PM CST, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 2, 9:37 PM CST, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 2, 10:01 PM CST, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 2, 10:09 PM CST, 0 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
Feb 2, 8:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills, Woodward	37 min
Feb 2, 9:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	27 min
Feb 2, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	52 min
Feb 2, 9:37 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	23 min
Feb 2, 10:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	38 min
Feb 2, 10:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	19 min
Feb 2, 11:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woods, Woodward	25 min
Feb 2, 11:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	49 min
Feb 2, 11:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	25 min
Feb 3, 12:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woods, Woodward	30 min
Feb 3, 12:33 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	4 hr
Feb 3, 12:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	27 min
Feb 3, 12:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Woods	48 min
Feb 3, 2:04 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	26 min
Feb 3, 2:36 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Major	24 min
Feb 3, 3:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Grant, Major	29 min
Feb 3, 4:22 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield, Kay	23 min
Feb 3, 4:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay, Noble	37 min
Feb 3, 8:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	37 min
Feb 3, 8:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	25 min
Feb 3, 8:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	23 min
Feb 3, 9:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	28 min
Feb 3, 12:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	20 min
Feb 3, 12:54 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	7 hr
Feb 3, 1:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	22 min
Feb 3, 1:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	16 min
Feb 3, 1:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	19 min
Feb 3, 1:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	15 min
Feb 3, 2:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	27 min
Feb 3, 2:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	26 min
Feb 3, 2:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	26 min
Feb 3, 2:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	19 min
Feb 3, 2:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	18 min
Feb 3, 3:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	14 min
Feb 3, 3:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain, Stephens	17 min
Feb 3, 3:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	16 min
Feb 3, 3:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	28 min
Feb 3, 3:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	26 min
Feb 3, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	55 min
Feb 3, 3:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	17 min
Feb 3, 4:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Love	17 min
Feb 3, 4:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	15 min
Feb 3, 4:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Love	14 min
Feb 3, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love, Marshall	65 min
Feb 3, 5:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	15 min
Feb 3, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Seminole	26 min
Feb 3, 1:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	21 min
Feb 3, 1:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	59 min
Feb 3, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	48 min
Feb 3, 2:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	14 min
Feb 3, 2:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	31 min
Feb 3, 3:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	52 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.