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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Norman, OK

June 24, 2014Noble County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2014, 7:40 PM CDT for Noble County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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 24, 2014, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Noble County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 24, 6:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 6:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 4:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:07 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:35 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
735 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

OKZ004-005-009-010-250115-
WOODWARD OK-HARPER OK-WOODS OK-ELLIS OK-
735 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WOODWARD...HARPER...
NORTHWESTERN WOODS AND NORTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM
CDT...

AT 733 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTTERMILK KANSAS TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
BUFFALO TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF LAVERNE...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WOODWARD...SHATTUCK...LAVERNE...ARNETT...GAGE...FORT SUPPLY...
FARGO...FREEDOM...MAY...SELMAN...TANGIER...CATESBY AND CAMP HOUSTON.

LAT...LON 3700 9914 3672 9897 3620 9944 3609 10000
      3670 10000 3678 9967 3700 9949
TIME...MOT...LOC 0033Z 342DEG 33KT 3698 9944 3672 9965 3662 9991

KURTZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	23 min
Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield, Major, Noble	48 min
Jun 24, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	40 min
Jun 24, 7:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield, Major	52 min
Jun 24, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	24 min
Jun 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	37 min
Jun 24, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woods, Woodward	33 min
Jun 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	29 min
Jun 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woodward	26 min
Jun 24, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey, Major, Roger Mills	34 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey, Major, Roger Mills	30 min
Jun 24, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	36 min
Jun 24, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	29 min
Jun 24, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	24 min
Jun 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	44 min
Jun 25, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	31 min
Jun 25, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	25 min
Jun 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	28 min
Jun 25, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	37 min
Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	25 min
Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	26 min
Jun 25, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	29 min
Jun 25, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	26 min
Jun 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	27 min
Jun 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	31 min
Jun 25, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	27 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.