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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 2012Tillman County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2012, 2:37 AM CDT for Tillman 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2012, 2:37 AM CDT (07:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

County Tillman County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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.

671 
WWUS84 KOUN 050738
SPSOUN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
237 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 2012

OKZ035-037-038-050800-
KIOWA OK-TILLMAN OK-COMANCHE OK-
237 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA...NORTH 
CENTRAL TILLMAN AND SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM 
CDT...

AT 236 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF 
MANITOU...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. 

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... 
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SNYDER...MOUNTAIN PARK AND INDIAHOMA. 

SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED AT 
THIS TIME.

LAT...LON 3471 9897 3466 9865 3440 9877 3443 9898
TIME...MOT...LOC 0736Z 190DEG 12KT 3448 9886 

$$

MBS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	21 min
Jun 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	23 min
Jun 5, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	46 min
Jun 5, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	49 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	61 min
Jun 5, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills, Washita	40 min
Jun 5, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo, Washita	63 min
Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer, Roger Mills, Washita	61 min
Jun 5, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter	39 min
Jun 5, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin, Grady	47 min
Jun 5, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	30 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Murray	49 min
Jun 5, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain	46 min
Jun 5, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Johnston	26 min
Jun 4, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	52 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	19 min
Jun 4, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	34 min
Jun 4, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	43 min
Jun 5, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard, Knox	49 min
Jun 5, 1:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	39 min
Jun 5, 1:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	36 min
Jun 5, 1:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	52 min
Jun 5, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	12 min
Jun 5, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	27 min
Jun 5, 2:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	61 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.