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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

August 6, 2012Love County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 8:21 PM CDT for Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 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 6, 2012, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2012, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

County Love County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 981 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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.

382 
WWUS84 KOUN 070121
SPSOUN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
821 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

OKZ046-050-070145-
LOVE OK-CARTER OK-
821 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LOVE AND
SOUTHEASTERN CARTER COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT...

AT 818 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LONE GROVE...
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OVERBROOK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3396 9736 3415 9736 3420 9715 3395 9706
TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 352DEG 14KT 3412 9724 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Love	26 min
Aug 7, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	30 min
Aug 7, 12:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	52 min
Aug 7, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	38 min
Aug 7, 12:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Johnston	36 min
Aug 7, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	25 min
Aug 7, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	35 min
Aug 7, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Johnston, Marshall	51 min
Aug 7, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Johnston	51 min
Aug 7, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	67 min
Aug 7, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	56 min
Aug 7, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	46 min
Aug 7, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	48 min
Aug 7, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	39 min
Aug 7, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	44 min
Aug 7, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	26 min
Aug 7, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	49 min
Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall, Murray	45 min
Aug 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	34 min
Aug 7, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	31 min
Aug 7, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	25 min
Aug 7, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	38 min
Aug 7, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	31 min
Aug 7, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	McClain	42 min
Aug 7, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jefferson	53 min
Aug 7, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	30 min
Aug 7, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	51 min
Aug 7, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	33 min
Aug 7, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	27 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.