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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2012, 4:46 PM CDT for Archer County, Clay County, Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Oct 13, 2012, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2012, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Wichita County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
775
WFUS54 KOUN 132146
TOROUN
TXC009-077-485-132230-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0053.121013T2146Z-121013T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
446 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN ARCHER COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 445 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF LAKE ARROWHEAD AND
ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HENRIETTA AND JOLLY.
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 3384 9853 3399 9805 3385 9797 3374 9798
3374 9798 3372 9850
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 247DEG 30KT 3378 9841
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Hardeman | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 49 min |
| Oct 13, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Knox, Wilbarger | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 51 min |
| Oct 13, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 39 min |
| Oct 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Archer, Clay | 40 min |
| Oct 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Archer, Clay | 63 min |
| Oct 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Archer | 46 min |
| Oct 13, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 40 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.