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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

August 8, 2014Cooke County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2014, 5:09 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 2014, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2014, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

County Cooke County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -236 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 4:37 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:09 PM CDT, 0 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
Aug 8, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	37 min
Aug 8, 1:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	26 min
Aug 8, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	35 min
Aug 8, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	31 min
Aug 8, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	28 min
Aug 8, 5:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	32 min
Aug 8, 6:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Payne	114 min
Aug 8, 6:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	22 min
Aug 8, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	25 min
Aug 8, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	50 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.