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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2020, 3:02 PM CDT for Foard County, Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 17, 2020, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2020, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Foard County, TX, Knox County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 Mar 17, 1:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 1:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OUN | Atoka | 5 days |
| Mar 17, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 25 min |
| Mar 17, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 4:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Baylor | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 32 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.