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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 749, NWS Norman, OK

August 9, 2019Canadian County, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2019, 12:53 AM CDT for Canadian County, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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 9, 2019, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2019, 1:21 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Canadian County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 316 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2019-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2019-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-203 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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 Aug 8, 6:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 6:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 10:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPottawatomie51 min
Aug 8, 10:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNOklahoma38 min
Aug 8, 11:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNPottawatomie33 min
Aug 8, 11:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCanadian35 min
Aug 9, 12:01 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCanadian, Oklahoma3 hr
Aug 9, 12:07 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNPottawatomie3 hr
Aug 9, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNLogan31 min
Aug 9, 12:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNOklahoma28 min
Aug 9, 1:18 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCanadian, Oklahoma3 hr
Aug 9, 2:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKingfisher27 min
Aug 9, 2:54 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNGarfield, Kingfisher, Logan3 hr
Aug 9, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKingfisher5 hr
Aug 9, 3:40 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryOUNAtoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Coal, Comanche and 12 more16 hr
Aug 9, 5:26 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNAlfalfa, Grant3 hr
Aug 9, 6:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant3 hr
Aug 9, 6:17 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNAlfalfa3 hr
Aug 9, 7:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNAlfalfa3 hr
Aug 9, 7:14 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCanadian, Oklahoma2 hr
Aug 9, 7:27 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCanadian, Oklahoma2 hr
Aug 9, 8:15 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNPayne3 hr
Aug 9, 8:45 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNKingfisher3 hr
Aug 9, 9:24 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant111 min
Aug 9, 9:41 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCleveland, Oklahoma3 hr
Aug 9, 3:14 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryOUNAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 29 more3 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.