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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Norman, OK

May 15, 2022Hughes County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2022, 5:25 PM CDT for Hughes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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 15, 2022, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2022, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Hughes County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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
May 15, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 302 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: 403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 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 May 15, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 5:16 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 15, 3:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 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 14, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper	57 min
May 14, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	36 min
May 14, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper, Woodward	59 min
May 14, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	43 min
May 14, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	44 min
May 14, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	28 min
May 14, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	41 min
May 14, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	42 min
May 14, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	52 min
May 14, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	29 min
May 14, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	22 min
May 14, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	26 min
May 14, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	36 min
May 14, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne	38 min
May 14, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Lincoln, Logan, Noble and 1 more	64 min
May 14, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	33 min
May 15, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	28 min
May 15, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kay, Noble	27 min
May 15, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	35 min
May 15, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	28 min
May 15, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Pontotoc	40 min
May 15, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes	51 min
May 15, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	52 min
May 15, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Coal, Hughes	43 min
May 15, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray	49 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.