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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 601, NWS Norman, OK

August 22, 2015Noble County, Payne County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2015, 7:49 AM CDT for Noble County, Payne County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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
Aug 22, 2015, 7:49 AM CDT (12:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2015, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2015-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1188 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2015-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 22, 7:23 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 7:23 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 22, 7:40 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 22, 6:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:22 AM CDT, 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 7:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWoods41 min
Aug 21, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNAlfalfa30 min
Aug 21, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods38 min
Aug 21, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods39 min
Aug 21, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods51 min
Aug 21, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant40 min
Aug 21, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major37 min
Aug 21, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant, Kay, Noble38 min
Aug 21, 11:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay, Noble47 min
Aug 22, 12:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne28 min
Aug 22, 12:39 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant36 min
Aug 22, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant31 min
Aug 22, 1:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNNoble28 min
Aug 22, 2:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNNoble29 min
Aug 22, 2:42 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNNoble18 min
Aug 22, 3:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne36 min
Aug 22, 3:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay31 min
Aug 22, 4:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay25 min
Aug 22, 4:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay30 min
Aug 22, 5:21 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNGrant, Kay114 min
Aug 22, 6:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNGrant, Kay3 hr
Aug 22, 6:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay, Noble24 min
Aug 22, 6:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNNoble35 min
Aug 22, 7:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne23 min
Aug 22, 7:32 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNNoble, Payne3 hr
Aug 22, 7:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne29 min
Aug 22, 8:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne13 min
Aug 22, 8:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Payne50 min
Aug 22, 8:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNOklahoma32 min
Aug 22, 8:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNOklahoma27 min
Aug 22, 9:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNLincoln30 min
Aug 22, 9:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNOkfuskee23 min
Aug 22, 9:30 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningOUNKay, Noble, Payne4 hr
Aug 22, 9:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNHughes, Seminole24 min
Aug 22, 9:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNHughes36 min
Aug 22, 10:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes42 min
Aug 22, 10:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNHughes25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.