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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2023, 12:57 PM CST for Archer County, Baylor County, Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 2, 2023, 12:57 PM CST (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2023, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Wichita County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 2, 12:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 2, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 12:47 AM CST | Flood Watch | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 29 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OUN | Atoka | 19 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Marshall | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Love, Marshall | 48 min |
| Mar 2, 2:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Coal | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 3:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Johnston, Marshall | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 3:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Coal | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 64 min |
| Mar 2, 4:01 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 4:26 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Bryan | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 4:42 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 5:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 11:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 12:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 1:23 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 1:33 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:47 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 1:51 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Baylor | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 2:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Wichita | 29 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.