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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Norman, OK

May 8, 2013Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2013, 6:36 PM CDT for Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2013, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2013, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Kingfisher County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 8, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 2545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 6:20 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:20 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 6:22 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:23 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 6:29 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:32 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:34 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 minute 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
May 7, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	29 min
May 7, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	49 min
May 7, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woodward	42 min
May 7, 8:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	25 min
May 7, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	35 min
May 7, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	33 min
May 7, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major	46 min
May 7, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	44 min
May 7, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	32 min
May 8, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	40 min
May 8, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	32 min
May 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	41 min
May 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	49 min
May 8, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	30 min
May 8, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	42 min
May 8, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	47 min
May 8, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	49 min
May 8, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	45 min
May 8, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	39 min
May 8, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	50 min
May 8, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	47 min
May 8, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	44 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major, Woodward	41 min
May 8, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	27 min
May 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	45 min
May 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	43 min
May 8, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	23 min
May 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	50 min
May 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	31 min
May 8, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	39 min
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	45 min
May 8, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	48 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.