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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 26, 2016, 7:21 AM CDT for Noble County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 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
- Oct 26, 2016, 7:21 AM CDT (12:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
County Noble County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Oct 26, 6:30 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 6:30 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 26, 6:26 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kay, Noble | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 7:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Payne | 38 min |
| Oct 26, 12:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Hughes | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pottawatomie | 29 min |
| Oct 26, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc, Seminole | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 2:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Hughes | 119 min |
| Oct 26, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Pontotoc | 53 min |
| Oct 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 45 min |
| Oct 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pontotoc | 24 min |
| Oct 26, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pontotoc | 24 min |
| Oct 26, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 58 min |
| Oct 26, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc | 53 min |
| Oct 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 36 min |
| Oct 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc | 46 min |
| Oct 26, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Murray | 36 min |
| Oct 26, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 37 min |
| Oct 26, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Love | 40 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.