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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 533, NWS Norman, OK

June 18, 2017Lincoln County, Logan County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2017, 6:11 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Logan County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 18, 2017, 6:11 AM CDT (11:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2017, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 18, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 00:00Z on 2017-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3025 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 00:00Z on 2017-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3025 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-400 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Jun 18, 2:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Norman OK
226 AM CDT Sun Jun 18 2017

.DISCUSSION...
The focus is primarily in the short term with frontal passage
tonight and ongoing convection. Cooler weather will arrive today,
followed by a gradual warm up and a return of thunderstorm

Latest water vapor imagery shows a fairly sharp shortwave trough
traversing southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. This has forced a
cold front southward into Oklahoma. Latest surface observations
shows the front along a line from just south of Stillwater to near
Cheyenne. Frontal lift of a still moderately unstable environment
with at least a couple thousand Joules of MUCAPE has resulted in
some thunderstorms. Although the stronger ascent will stay to the
north and thus the more widespread convection should occur over
Kansas, a couple of clusters and bowing segments are ongoing across
north-central Oklahoma. These should continue to move southeast for
the next few hours in a moist and unstable environment. Westward
extent/growth should be tempered by warm capping mid-level layer as
700 mb temperature gradient is fairly steep east-to-west across the
area.

A marginal low-end severe threat will continue for the next few
hours, although growing MLCIN should lessen the wind threat some,
and storm mode generally won't favor significant hail sizes.

Despite stronger forcing remaining north of the area, a couple of
factors led us to retain at least low precipitation probabilities
across the eastern portion of the area this morning. 1.) a very
moist environment (nearly 2.0 inches PWAT) that is still modestly
unstable, and 2.) outflow/cold pool strengthening as storms track
southeast along periphery of ridge and edge of stronger mid-level
capping.

Thunderstorms should reform near the slowing cold front across south-
central and southeast Oklahoma later today. Marginal deep layer
shear for storm organization should preclude a higher end severe
threat, but given magnitude of instability that should form as
diabatic heating occurs late in the day, some severe thunderstorms
will be possible. Convection should diminish and/or shift southeast
by the early morning hours on Monday.

For later in the week, we continue to be on the northeast side of
mean ridging with occasional shortwaves moving through the northern
and central Plains. Periodic thunderstorm chances are expected and
timing of these will be refined in later forecasts. As it appears
now, the best chance of storms should be across northern and perhaps
eastern portions of the area on Wednesday night and late Friday into
Saturday.

BRB

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Oklahoma City OK  77  63  87  65 /  20  10   0   0
Hobart OK         82  62  88  65 /  10   0   0   0
Wichita Falls TX  85  65  87  69 /  10  20   0   0
Gage OK           82  59  86  60 /   0   0   0   0
Ponca City OK     78  61  85  60 /  20   0   0   0
Durant OK         88  67  87  68 /  50  60  20  10

&&

.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...None.
TX...None.
&&

10/12
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 5:20 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Norman OK
444 AM CDT SUN JUN 18 2017

OKZ007-012-181015-
Garfield OK-Grant OK-
444 AM CDT SUN JUN 18 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR north central Garfield and
southern Grant Counties Until 515 AM CDT...

AT 442 AM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 5 miles west of
Jefferson, moving east at 35 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Hail up to the size of nickels...
Wind gusts to 50 MPH...

Locations impacted include...
Pond Creek, Lamont, Hunter and Jefferson.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening
weather conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3672 9746 3660 9754 3648 9764 3664 9802
      3681 9794
TIME...MOT...LOC 0942Z 289DEG 30KT 3671 9789

MAHALE
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Norman OK
451 AM CDT SUN JUN 18 2017

OKZ012-013-181015-
Garfield OK-Noble OK-
451 AM CDT SUN JUN 18 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR northeastern Garfield and west
central Noble Counties Until 515 AM CDT...

AT 449 AM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Breckenridge,
moving east at 35 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Hail up to the size of nickels...
Wind gusts to 50 MPH...

Locations impacted include...
Enid, Garber, Breckenridge, Lucien and Hayward.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening
weather conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3647 9783 3656 9774 3646 9728 3625 9747
TIME...MOT...LOC 0949Z 290DEG 30KT 3647 9772

MAHALE
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods59 min
Jun 17, 10:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWoods25 min
Jun 17, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods13 min
Jun 17, 11:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant, Kay39 min
Jun 17, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay50 min
Jun 17, 11:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNAlfalfa33 min
Jun 17, 11:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant, Noble49 min
Jun 18, 12:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant28 min
Jun 18, 12:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant33 min
Jun 18, 12:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay42 min
Jun 18, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant, Kay, Noble22 min
Jun 18, 1:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant34 min
Jun 18, 1:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGarfield, Noble34 min
Jun 18, 2:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNLogan, Noble31 min
Jun 18, 2:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNMajor27 min
Jun 18, 2:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne49 min
Jun 18, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Major42 min
Jun 18, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Payne47 min
Jun 18, 3:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne51 min
Jun 18, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne50 min
Jun 18, 4:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGrant31 min
Jun 18, 4:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGarfield24 min
Jun 18, 4:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln46 min
Jun 18, 5:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Noble44 min
Jun 18, 5:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKay35 min
Jun 18, 5:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne47 min
Jun 18, 5:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNLincoln14 min
Jun 18, 5:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPayne31 min
Jun 18, 6:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNNoble25 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.