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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 353, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT for Foard County, Hardeman County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 13, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2015, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 May 13, 6:15 PM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:15 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1234 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2015 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-141745- 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- 1234 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... .HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING... MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH-NORTHEAST THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON... EVENING AND OVERNIGHT INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. WIDESPREAD ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED FROM NORTHERN TEXAS INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... ALONG WITH ISOLATED AREAS OF HEAVIER RAIN CAPABLE OF UP TO 3 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION. WITH THE STATE OF THE WATERSHED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INTO SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS... THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD EASILY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. THEREFORE... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. REMEMBER... WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADWAYS... TURN AROUND DO NOT DROWN. .RIVER AND STREAM FLOODING... MANY RIVERS AND STREAMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS REMAIN NEAR OR AT FLOOD STAGE DUE TO RECENT RAINFALL. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TODAY WILL LIKELY RESULT IN INCREASED RIVER FLOODING. .THUNDERSTORMS... MOST ACROSS THE REGION WILL ONLY EXPERIENCE RAIN WITH SOME ISOLATED RUMBLES OF THUNDER. HOWEVER... THERE IS AN INCREASED CHANCE OF THUNDER LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. A FEW STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... BUT NO WIDESPREAD OR SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... .FLOODING... ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE BEGINNING THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE WEEKEND... INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR FLOODING. RIVER FLOODING MAY CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK IN SOME LOCATIONS. .THUNDERSTORMS... SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR IN NORTHERN TEXAS AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE FRIDAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO ANTICIPATED ON SATURDAY ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. KURTZ
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 13, 12:46 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 50 hr |
| May 13, 9:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Hughes, Johnston and 3 more | 9 hr |
| May 13, 11:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OUN | Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady, Greer and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 3 hr |
| May 13, 1:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, McClain and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Wichita | 6 hr |
| May 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 33 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.