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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2018, 5:11 AM CDT for Harper 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2018, 5:11 AM CDT (10:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2018, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
County Harper County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
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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 14, 3:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:11 AM CDT, 0 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 |
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| Aug 14, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Ellis | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 6:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Ellis | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 7:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Alfalfa | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 7:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garfield, Grant | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 8:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grant | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 9:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kay | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 9:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kay | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 10:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Noble | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 10:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Noble | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cleveland | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady, McClain | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 2:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Grady, McClain | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 52 min |
| Aug 14, 3:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Payne | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kingfisher | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kingfisher | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Dewey | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 5:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Oklahoma | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma | 52 min |
| Aug 14, 5:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Oklahoma | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cotton | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 35 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.