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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 718, NWS Norman, OK

September 2, 2020Kiowa County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2020, 3:24 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 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
Sep 2, 2020, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 2020, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Kiowa County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2020-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 819 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2020-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Sep 1, 6:34 PM CDT, 20 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 6:34 PM CDT, 20 hours 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 8:51 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningOUNAtoka29 hr
Sep 1, 8:52 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryOUNBryan5 hr
Sep 1, 10:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCuster24 min
Sep 2, 3:02 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryOUNCarter, Johnston, Murray10 hr
Sep 2, 11:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNHarper3 hr
Sep 2, 1:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNEllis32 min
Sep 2, 1:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNRoger Mills36 min
Sep 2, 1:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNRoger Mills35 min
Sep 2, 2:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBeckham26 min
Sep 2, 2:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWoodward32 min
Sep 2, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Roger Mills40 min
Sep 2, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Woodward38 min
Sep 2, 2:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNBeckham3 hr
Sep 2, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham50 min
Sep 2, 3:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNGreer38 min
Sep 2, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer38 min
Sep 2, 3:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKiowa31 min
Sep 2, 3:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNDewey30 min
Sep 2, 3:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBlaine21 min
Sep 2, 3:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNDewey29 min
Sep 2, 4:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNJackson, Kiowa43 min
Sep 2, 4:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBlaine26 min
Sep 2, 4:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBlaine37 min
Sep 2, 4:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKingfisher33 min
Sep 2, 4:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBlaine13 min
Sep 2, 4:37 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOUNCuster53 min
Sep 2, 4:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBlaine, Kingfisher28 min
Sep 2, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCuster27 min
Sep 2, 5:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKingfisher24 min
Sep 2, 12:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNHardeman31 min

Nearby

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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.