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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2014, 10:42 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 5, 2014, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2014, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lincoln County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Oct 5, 10:02 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 10:02 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1150 AM CDT SUN OCT 5 2014 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-061200- 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 SUN OCT 5 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... .THUNDERSTORMS... SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS LATE TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING AS MOISTURE SPREADS BACK NORTH INTO PARTS OF THE AREA...AND A COMPACT UPPER STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. A FEW OF THE STORMS IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA COULD BECOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. OTHERWISE... CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE THE MAIN IMPACTS WITH ANY STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... .THUNDERSTORMS... SOME SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE IN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY MONDAY...BUT SHOULD DISSIPATE THROUGH THE NOON HOUR. AFTER A BRIEF DRY PERIOD... RAIN CHANCES WILL RETURN TO PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS FOR THE LATER HALF OF THE WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND. WHILE A FEW STRONG STORMS MAY OCCUR...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL APPEARS TO BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD AT THIS TIME. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. MAXWELL/AUSTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 10:15 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 10:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Payne | 30 min |
| Oct 5, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 31 min |
| Oct 5, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Grady | 48 min |
| Oct 5, 10:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 37 min |
| Oct 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 27 min |
| Oct 5, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 28 min |
| Oct 5, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cleveland | 22 min |
| Oct 6, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 25 min |
| Oct 6, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin, Hughes, Seminole | 32 min |
| Oct 6, 1:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin, Hughes, Pontotoc | 36 min |
| Oct 6, 1:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin | 31 min |
| Oct 6, 2:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Love, Marshall | 46 min |
| Oct 6, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens | 43 min |
| Oct 6, 3:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | McClain | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, McClain, Stephens | 22 min |
| Oct 6, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Love, Murray, Stephens | 51 min |
| Oct 6, 4:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin | 36 min |
| Oct 6, 4:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grady | 28 min |
| Oct 6, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love | 51 min |
| Oct 6, 4:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin | 23 min |
| Oct 6, 4:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grady | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Grady, Stephens | 32 min |
| Oct 6, 5:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter | 43 min |
| Oct 6, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Love | 20 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.