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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Norman, OK

June 25, 2014Archer County, Clay County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2014, 4:51 PM CDT for Archer County, Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 25, 2014, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2014, 5:18 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 Jun 25, 2:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 11:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1150 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-261000-
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-
1150 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN...
WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS.

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

.THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. WIND SHEAR WILL REMAIN WEAK AND ORGANIZED
SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...INSTABILITY WILL BE
SUFFICIENT FOR A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS PRODUCING
STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HAIL.

ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER
THE HIGH PLAINS TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED
TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH THE THREAT FOR
SEVERE STORMS WILL DECREASE AS THE STORMS MOVE INTO OKLAHOMA AND
NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT...A FEW STRONG STORMS PRODUCING STRONG
WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

.THUNDERSTORMS...
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL PERSIST ACROSS PORTIONS OF OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. AT THIS TIME THE RISK
OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO BE RELATIVELY LOW.

GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW
OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.

II/30

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:16 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:49 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
449 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

TXZ089-090-252215-
CLAY TX-ARCHER TX-
449 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN CLAY AND
SOUTHEASTERN ARCHER COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 449 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF WINDTHORST...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...
MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHANNON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED AT
THIS TIME.

&&

LAT...LON 3357 9837 3353 9819 3353 9818 3347 9821
      3347 9842 3340 9842 3340 9857
TIME...MOT...LOC 2147Z 32DEG 17KT 3348 9835

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, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble	35 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, 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.