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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Norman, OK

April 23, 2014Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2014, 11:10 PM CDT for Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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: Apr 23, 2014, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2014, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wichita County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Apr 23, 9:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 9:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 8:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 9:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:19 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:41 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:43 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 10:48 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	54 min
Apr 23, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer, Kiowa	38 min
Apr 23, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	56 min
Apr 23, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	55 min
Apr 23, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	29 min
Apr 23, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	32 min
Apr 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	46 min
Apr 23, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major	54 min
Apr 23, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	41 min
Apr 23, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	38 min
Apr 23, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian, Grady	34 min
Apr 24, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	28 min
Apr 24, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	21 min
Apr 24, 12:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Jefferson and 11 more	62 min
Apr 24, 1:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Marshall	43 min
Apr 24, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	59 min
Apr 24, 5:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole	53 min
Apr 24, 6:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston	50 min
Apr 24, 9:44 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OUN	Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 11 more	3 hr
Apr 24, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	26 min
Apr 23, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	44 min
Apr 23, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger	38 min
Apr 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay, Wichita	49 min
Apr 23, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	27 min
Apr 23, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	29 min
Apr 23, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	26 min
Apr 23, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer, Wichita	32 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.