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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Norman, OK

May 9, 2013Comanche County, Cotton County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2013, 2:55 PM CDT for Comanche County, Cotton County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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 9, 2013, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -316 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 9, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1155 AM CDT THU MAY 9 2013

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-100000-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1155 AM CDT THU MAY 9 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF OKLAHOMA AND
NORTH TEXAS.

LOCATION...THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HOLLIS TO ELK CITY
TO TALOGA TO MEDFORD.

TIMING...2 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT

HAZARDS...LARGE HAIL TO BASEBALL DIAMETER...DAMAGING WIND...ISOLATED
TORNADOES.

DISCUSSION...
SURFACE MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF A
SLOWLY-MOVING COLD FRONT. CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...AND SURFACE HEATING
WITH ITS ASSOCIATED LOW-LEVEL INSTABILITY...WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG INSTABILITY ALOFT WILL
THEN SUPPORT LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WITH MANY OF THE STORMS. SUPERCELL
STRUCTURES ARE EXPECTED IN SOME CASES...AND TORNADOES MAY OCCUR WITH THESE
STORMS...WHICH WILL BE MOST LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST PARTS OF OKLAHOMA
AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN WITHIN
SEVERAL HOURS AFTER SUNSET.

PROBABILITY TABLE...VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT FRIDAY MAY 9.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
              NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...100 PERCENT.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE ARE LOW CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE WEEKEND. NONE ARE EXPECTED
TO BE SEVERE.

OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.

THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED BY 5 AM FRIDAY.

CMS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 9:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 2:32 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
232 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2013

OKZ038-092000-
COMANCHE OK-
232 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN COMANCHE COUNTY
UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

AT 227 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CACHE AND NEAR FAXON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS
WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF LAWTON.

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

LAT...LON 3441 9865 3459 9864 3469 9837 3449 9838
TIME...MOT...LOC 1927Z 237DEG 12KT 3454 9855 3449 9859

..SPEG.

Local storm report, May 9, 2:42 PM CDT, 13 minutes 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 8, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo	27 min
May 8, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	51 min
May 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	50 min
May 8, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	46 min
May 8, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	43 min
May 8, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	46 min
May 8, 7:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian	3 hr
May 8, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady	49 min
May 8, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	47 min
May 8, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Stephens	49 min
May 8, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	46 min
May 8, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	39 min
May 8, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	44 min
May 8, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, Pontotoc and 2 more	50 min
May 8, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	43 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	29 min
May 8, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	27 min
May 8, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Seminole	25 min
May 8, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Oklahoma	42 min
May 8, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	28 min
May 8, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	27 min
May 8, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	24 min
May 8, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woods, Woodward	37 min
May 8, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward	49 min
May 9, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan	40 min
May 9, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills, Woodward	66 min
May 9, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	31 min
May 9, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	50 min
May 9, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay	48 min
May 9, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble	57 min
May 9, 3:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	25 min
May 9, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	23 min
May 9, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	30 min
May 9, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	28 min
May 9, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	27 min
May 9, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	24 min
May 9, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	32 min
May 9, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	16 min
May 9, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	51 min
May 9, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	27 min
May 9, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	34 min
May 9, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	40 min
May 9, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	26 min
May 9, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	25 min
May 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	39 min
May 9, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	29 min
May 9, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.