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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

May 24, 2020Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2020, 7:37 AM CDT for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 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: May 24, 2020, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2020, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

County Oklahoma County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 309 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 May 24, 6:46 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:46 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 4:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 2:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
215 AM CDT SUN MAY 24 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0204 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST VANCE AIR FORCE BASE    36.34N 97.90W
05/24/2020  M62 MPH          GARFIELD           OK   ASOS

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SC

Local storm report, May 24, 2:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
230 AM CDT SUN MAY 24 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 1 SSW CHEROKEE          36.74N 98.36W
05/24/2020  M61 MPH          ALFALFA            OK   MESONET

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Special weather statement, May 24, 2:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 2:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 3:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 7:37 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	28 min
May 23, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	31 min
May 23, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	30 min
May 23, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson, Tillman	52 min
May 23, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	30 min
May 23, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	40 min
May 23, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer, Greer, Kiowa, Washita	32 min
May 23, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman, Washita	49 min
May 23, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	30 min
May 23, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Tillman	52 min
May 23, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Washita	34 min
May 23, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	33 min
May 23, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	32 min
May 23, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Kiowa, Tillman	42 min
May 23, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Kiowa, Washita	51 min
May 23, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa and 3 more	38 min
May 23, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Garvin, Grady and 3 more	48 min
May 24, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	48 min
May 24, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Johnston, McClain, Murray, Pontotoc and 1 more	46 min
May 24, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Johnston, Marshall, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	46 min
May 24, 2:44 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 5 more	95 min
May 24, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Seminole	43 min
May 24, 3:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	26 min
May 24, 9:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	41 min
May 24, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	23 min
May 24, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	46 min
May 24, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Marshall	43 min
May 24, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Marshall	24 min
May 24, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Marshall	31 min
May 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Love	27 min
May 24, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka	36 min
May 24, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	24 min
May 23, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard, Knox	28 min
May 23, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Knox	44 min
May 24, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	38 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.