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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Norman, OK

June 25, 2014Cotton County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2014, 6:23 PM CDT for Cotton 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 25, 2014, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Cotton County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1352 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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, 5:47 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 5:47 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
547 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

.UPDATE...
TWEAKED RAIN CHANCES THIS EVENING BASED ON CURRENT RADAR TRENDS.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING.

LATEST RADAR INDICATED A FEW SLOW MOVING PULSE STORMS GENERALLY
FROM NEAR WICHITA FALLS TO PAULS VALLEY TO SOUTH OF SHAWNEE. STORM
COVERAGE WILL REMAIN LOW DUE WEAK FORCING AND WEAK SHEAR.
INSTABILITY IS MODERATE WITH MLCAPE 1500-3000 J/KG. A FEW STRONG
TO PERHAPS SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH MARGINAL WIND AND HAIL
AS THE MAIN HAZARDS. ANY STORM WILL BE SLOW MOVERS AND COULD BRING
A QUICK INCH OR MORE OF RAINFALL TO A FEW LOCATIONS.

KEPT 20 TO 30 PERCENT CHANCE FOR STORMS THROUGH 10 PM THIS
EVENING ACROSS ALL OF THE AREA EXCEPT NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA WHERE
CAPPING IS STRONGEST. BELIEVE THESE STORMS WILL DIMINISH WITH THE
LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING BETWEEN 9 AND 10 PM THIS EVENING.

ADDITIONAL STORMS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGH PLAINS
MAY MOVE INTO OKLAHOMA LATER TONIGHT...PROBABLY WELL AFTER
10 PM AND NOT UNTIL AFTER 1 AM.

PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN UPDATED.

MBS

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 234 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014/

DISCUSSION...
PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN REMAINS FOCUSED ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES
ACROSS PORTIONS OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE
WEEKEND.

A SOMEWHAT CONVOLUTED SYNOPTIC PATTERN CONTINUES TO MAKE IT A
CHALLENGE TO PIN DOWN TIMING/LOCATION OF ANY/ALL THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REGION. THE ATMOSPHERE APPEARS TO BE ATTEMPTING
ITS TRANSITION TO A SUMMER PATTERN... BUT THE PICTURE REMAINS A TAD
MUDDLED. LOOKING BRIEFLY AT THE 5 WAVE PROGS OF THE NRN
HEMISPHERE... WHICH IS MORE OF A 4 WAVE PATTERN AT THE MOMENT... A
BROAD RIDGE EXISTS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA... WITH A TROUGH DOWN THE
NRN PAC/WEST COAST.

WITHIN THIS GENERAL PATTERN... A SERIES OF WEAK SHORT WAVE H500
TROUGHS CONTINUE TO TRAVERSE THE CENTRAL PLAINS... WITH CONTINUAL
SRLY LOW/MID LEVEL FLOW PROVIDING DECENT MOISTURE. WITH DECENT
INSTABILITY... BUT WEAK FORCING... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUALLY
DEVELOPED ALONG A MULTITUDE OF BOUNDARIES... EITHER LINGERING FROM
THE PREVIOUS DAY OR THAT OF WEAK FRONTS ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK SFC
TROUGHS. FOR THIS EVENING... LINGERING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SRN OK/WRN N TX. OVERNIGHT... A
DECENT LLJ AS ANTICIPATED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE CAPROCK/TXPH/WRN OK
OVERNIGHT AHEAD OF A DEVELOPING SFC TROUGH... WITH SCATTERED TO
ISOLATED STORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE PANHANDLES SLOWLY MOVING
EASTWARD INTO PORTIONS OF WRN OK. WITH SLIGHT CHANCES FOR ISOLATED
SHOWERS/THUNDER THROUGH THE DAY ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. NO
GUARANTEES EVERYONE WILL SEE RAIN... BUT THERE IS A CHANCE.

PRECIP CHANCES WILL TAPER OFF THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... AS MID-LEVEL
S/SW FLOW CONTINUES TO WARM 800-700MB TEMPS... INCREASING THE
CAPPING INVERSION. HOWEVER... LIFT FROM A FRONTAL PASSAGE SAT MAY
RESULT IN ANOTHER CHANCE FOR ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDER DURING THE
DAY. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR ANY PRECIP WILL BE TUE MORNING ACROSS NRN
OK... WHEN SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN.

WITH CONTINUAL SRLY FLOW... TEMPS WILL SLOWLY INCREASE THROUGH THE
WEEKEND... WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S/LOWER 90S FOR MUCH OF THE
REGION BY THE WEEKEND.

JTK

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK  68  88  71  90 /  20  20  20  10
HOBART OK         67  90  71  91 /  30  20  10  10
WICHITA FALLS TX  69  93  73  91 /  20  20  10  10
GAGE OK           67  88  70  89 /  40  20  10  10
PONCA CITY OK     69  87  71  88 /  20  30  20  10
DURANT OK         71  89  72  85 /  30  30  20  30

&&

.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

17/84
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 11:50 AM CDT, 6 hours 33 minutes 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

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 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
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
516 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

OKZ030-252300-
POTTAWATOMIE OK-
516 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY
UNTIL 600 PM CDT...

AT 515 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF TRIBBEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH DIAMETER...
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...
MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ASHER...WANETTE...TRIBBEY...ST. LOUIS...MACOMB AND TROUSDALE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3495 9691 3496 9694 3495 9696 3495 9713
      3517 9713 3512 9684 3495 9683
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 210DEG 13KT 3506 9699

MBS
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 5:59 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
559 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

OKZ044-252330-
COTTON OK-
559 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL COTTON COUNTY UNTIL 630
PM CDT...

AT 558 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WALTERS...NEARLY STATIONARY... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COOKIETOWN.

LAT...LON 3431 9827 3422 9834 3428 9852 3442 9843
TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 120DEG 4KT 3430 9836

KURTZ
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:17 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
617 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

OKZ044-252345-
COTTON OK-
617 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL COTTON COUNTY UNTIL 645
PM CDT...

AT 614 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COOKIETOWN...
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COOKIETOWN.

LAT...LON 3431 9846 3431 9841 3421 9840 3417 9844
      3421 9852
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 8DEG 10KT 3428 9843

KURTZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNHarper23 min
Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGarfield, Major, Noble48 min
Jun 24, 7:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNEllis, Woodward40 min
Jun 24, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble35 min
Jun 24, 7:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGarfield, Major52 min
Jun 24, 8:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNEllis, Woodward24 min
Jun 24, 8:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGarfield37 min
Jun 24, 8:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNEllis, Woods, Woodward33 min
Jun 24, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield29 min
Jun 24, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woodward26 min
Jun 24, 8:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNDewey, Major, Roger Mills34 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNDewey, Major, Roger Mills30 min
Jun 24, 10:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCuster36 min
Jun 24, 10:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCuster29 min
Jun 24, 11:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCuster24 min
Jun 25, 5:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPottawatomie44 min
Jun 25, 5:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCotton31 min
Jun 25, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton25 min
Jun 25, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCotton28 min
Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCoal25 min
Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNClay26 min
Jun 25, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNClay29 min
Jun 25, 4:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNArcher26 min
Jun 25, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay27 min
Jun 25, 6:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWichita31 min
Jun 25, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWichita27 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.