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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Norman, OK

May 13, 2022Cotton County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2022, 7:15 PM CDT for Cotton County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 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: May 13, 2022, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cotton County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 3334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 20.2

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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 May 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 12:41 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 13, 6:59 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:01 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:09 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:10 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:14 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:15 PM 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 13, 7:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cotton	3 hr
May 13, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	38 min
May 13, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	43 min
May 13, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cotton	38 min
May 13, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	50 min
May 13, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	40 min
May 13, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	28 min
May 13, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	49 min
May 13, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	51 min
May 13, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	33 min
May 13, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major	61 min
May 13, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa	39 min
May 13, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine	34 min
May 13, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian	51 min
May 13, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Major	62 min
May 14, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	48 min
May 14, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	29 min
May 14, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	46 min
May 14, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine	66 min
May 14, 1:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	24 min
May 14, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	49 min
May 14, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	39 min
May 14, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	30 min
May 14, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	53 min
May 14, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	28 min
May 14, 4:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	34 min
May 14, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper	66 min
May 13, 7:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Wichita	3 hr
May 13, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	52 min
May 13, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	39 min
May 13, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	45 min
May 13, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	25 min
May 14, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	27 min
May 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	34 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.