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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2012, 7:29 PM CDT for Baylor County, Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- May 30, 2012, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baylor County, TX, Knox County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 30, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
446
WFUS54 KOUN 310029
TOROUN
TXC023-275-310100-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0052.120531T0029Z-120531T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
729 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME WEST CENTRAL BAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH TEXAS...
KNOX COUNTY IN NORTH TEXAS...
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GILLILAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
20 MPH. IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO... THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HAIL LARGER THAN BASEBALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MUNDAY...GILLILAND...RHINELAND...VERA AND RED SPRINGS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GET IN...GET DOWN AND COVER UP. TAKE COVER NOW IN A STORM SHELTER
OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A STURDY BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND
WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3368 9986 3381 9971 3380 9970 3382 9969
3382 9966 3361 9938 3342 9964
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 315DEG 17KT 3370 9973
$$
..SPEG.The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 65 min |
| May 30, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wilbarger | 34 min |
| May 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 31 min |
| May 30, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 22 min |
| May 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor | 61 min |
| May 30, 10:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 61 min |
| May 31, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger | 46 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.