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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 5:44 PM CDT for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 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 9, 2014, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
County Oklahoma County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 1434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 9, 2:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 233 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 .DISCUSSION... WEAKLY FORCED ENVIRONMENT AGAIN MAKES POPS DIFFICULT THIS EVENING. APPEARS THAT BEST CHANCES EARLY THIS EVENING WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SE INTO CNTRL OK FROM SHOWERS/STORMS EARLIER THIS MORNING AND ALONG DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY SOUTH OF PERSISTENT MID CLOUD DECK. LATER TONIGHT EXPECT BETTER CHANCES TO SHIFT TOWARD NRN PARTS OF THE AREA ALONG AND NORTH OF RETREATING BOUNDARY. ALTHOUGH SHEAR REMAINS WEAK...ENOUGH INSTAB PRESENT FOR A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS THROUGH MID EVENING. COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTHWARD INTO THE REGION ON SUNDAY. DID NOT CHANGE TIMING MUCH FROM PREV FORECAST WITH THE FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH THROUGH NW HALF BY LATE AFTN. WILL GENERALLY ALIGN SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. ANOTHER HOT DAY EXPECTED FROM N TX INTO SERN HALF OF OK WITH FROPA NOT EXPECTED UNTIL LATE AFTN OR SUNDAY NIGHT. BY MONDAY POPS WILL BE LIMITED TO FAR SRN PARTS OF THE FA WITH COOLER HIGHS EXPECTED AREAWIDE. FORECAST REMAINS DRY TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WITH UPPER RIDGE BUILDING BACK INTO THE REGION. PRECIP CHANCES RETURN TO MAINLY NRN OK AS UPPER FLOW BEGINS TO FLATTEN OUT AS DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS. TEMPS NEAR OR BLO EARLY AUGUST NORMS TUES/WED BEFORE WARMING UP LATER IN THE WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 74 97 72 92 / 20 30 30 10 HOBART OK 73 99 72 95 / 20 30 30 10 WICHITA FALLS TX 75 102 73 97 / 20 10 30 20 GAGE OK 69 93 67 90 / 20 30 30 10 PONCA CITY OK 73 92 70 89 / 30 30 20 10 DURANT OK 75 99 74 97 / 30 10 30 30 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 25/02
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 11:28 AM CDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1128 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-101030- 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- 1128 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 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... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. SMALL HAIL... GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN IMPACTS. HOWEVER... A STORM OR TWO MAY BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. ANY POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL DECREASE AFTER SUNSET. .HEAT... HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL AGAIN REACH NEAR OR ABOVE 100 OVER MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT HEAT-RELATED ILLNESS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... .HEAT... HIGH TEMPERATURES AND HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE NEAR OR ABOVE 100 THROUGH THE AREA SUNDAY AND AGAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS ON MONDAY. .THUNDERSTORMS... AT LEAST LOW STORM CHANCES REMAIN THROUGH MONDAY. THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK REMAINS LOW. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 22 min |
| Aug 9, 8:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Noble | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cleveland | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pontotoc | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 4:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Cleveland | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pottawatomie | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pontotoc | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Johnston | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 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.