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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Norman, OK

June 2, 2014Lincoln County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2014, 4:38 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 2, 2014, 4:38 AM CDT (09:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2014, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Lincoln County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 1234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 Jun 2, 3:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 11:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:52 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:06 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:24 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:34 AM CDT, 4 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
Jun 1, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	33 min
Jun 1, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	37 min
Jun 1, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	47 min
Jun 1, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	46 min
Jun 1, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	48 min
Jun 1, 10:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	35 min
Jun 1, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	36 min
Jun 1, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	46 min
Jun 1, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	34 min
Jun 1, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	32 min
Jun 1, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	37 min
Jun 2, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	27 min
Jun 2, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	26 min
Jun 2, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	27 min
Jun 2, 1:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods	3 hr
Jun 2, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	25 min
Jun 2, 2:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	33 min
Jun 2, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	40 min
Jun 2, 2:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	24 min
Jun 2, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	33 min
Jun 2, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma	23 min
Jun 2, 4:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jun 2, 4:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	24 min
Jun 2, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	21 min
Jun 2, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	26 min
Jun 2, 4:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland	24 min
Jun 2, 5:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	30 min
Jun 2, 5:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	33 min
Jun 2, 7:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	50 min
Jun 2, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	51 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.