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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2014, 7:27 PM CDT for Hughes County, Seminole County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 8, 2014, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hughes County, OK, Seminole County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 309 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1135 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-091645- 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- 1135 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 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... A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHWARD THROUGH AFTERNOON HOURS. WITH SUFFICIENT AFTERNOON HEATING AND WEAK CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AFTER 4 PM. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY...A FEW DAMAGING WIND GUSTS MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS THAT DEVELOP AND THE SLOW MOVING NATURE OF STORMS MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. STORMS MAY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD LATE TONIGHT...BUT THE SEVERE THREAT WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .HEAT... AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 90S TO LOW 100S ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN TEXAS. THIS COMBINED WITH FAIRLY MUGGY CONDITIONS WILL LEAD TO ANOTHER DAY OF HEAT INDICES SURPASSING 100 DEGREES AT MANY LOCATIONS. IF WORKING OR PLAYING OUTDOORS...DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND TRY TO TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN THE SHADE OR IN AN AIR CONDITIONED ESTABLISHMENT. MAKE SURE PETS AND LIVESTOCK HAVE ACCESS TO WATER AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... .THUNDERSTORMS... AS A COLD FRONT LINGERS ACROSS THE AREA...SCATTERED STORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE FRONT WILL EVENTUALLY LIFT NORTH OF OKLAHOMA LATE THURSDAY...BRINGING RAIN CHANCES TO AN END. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS VERY UNLIKELY...BUT STRONGER STORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MAY POSE A LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND THREAT. .HEAT... AS THE FRONT LIFTS NORTH OF THE REGION...HOT WEATHER WILL DEVELOP FROM THURSDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM THE MID 90S TO LOW 100S...AND TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT INDICES MOST DAYS. IF WORKING OR PLAYING OUTDOORS...DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND TRY TO TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN THE SHADE OR IN AN AIR CONDITIONED ESTABLISHMENT. MAKE SURE PETS AND LIVESTOCK HAVE ACCESS TO WATER AS WELL. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. AUSTIN/JP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pottawatomie | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 17 min |
| Jul 9, 2:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Dewey | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Oklahoma | 117 min |
| Jul 9, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 42 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014
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.