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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

July 3, 2023Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2023, 6:21 PM CDT for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 3, 2023, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2023, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 55

County Oklahoma County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 1235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 3, 3:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 4:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 5:52 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:56 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:08 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:11 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:18 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:21 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
Jul 2, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	27 min
Jul 2, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	30 min
Jul 2, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	35 min
Jul 3, 12:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	37 min
Jul 3, 8:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	36 min
Jul 3, 8:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	37 min
Jul 3, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	41 min
Jul 3, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	44 min
Jul 3, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	33 min
Jul 3, 12:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Noble, Payne	112 min
Jul 3, 12:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Noble, Payne	3 hr
Jul 3, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	32 min
Jul 3, 1:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	45 min
Jul 3, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	21 min
Jul 3, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garfield	32 min
Jul 3, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	29 min
Jul 3, 1:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	3 hr
Jul 3, 1:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Logan, Payne	3 hr
Jul 3, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	27 min
Jul 3, 1:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	3 hr
Jul 3, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	38 min
Jul 3, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	33 min
Jul 3, 2:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Noble	3 hr
Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma	28 min
Jul 3, 2:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	3 hr
Jul 3, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Seminole	30 min
Jul 3, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	28 min
Jul 3, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	24 min
Jul 3, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	27 min
Jul 3, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kingfisher	26 min
Jul 3, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	23 min
Jul 3, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	34 min
Jul 3, 4:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	3 hr
Jul 3, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	36 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	34 min
Jul 3, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	31 min
Jul 3, 4:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	3 hr
Jul 3, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes	38 min
Jul 3, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	34 min
Jul 3, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	32 min
Jul 3, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Murray	28 min
Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Grady	3 hr
Jul 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Carter	29 min
Jul 3, 5:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Coal, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jul 3, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter	37 min
Jul 3, 5:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 3, 5:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	3 hr
Jul 3, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	34 min
Jul 3, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson	29 min
Jul 3, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	34 min
Jul 3, 6:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Oklahoma	3 hr
Jul 3, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	37 min
Jul 3, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson	33 min
Jul 3, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	29 min
Jul 3, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland	23 min
Jul 3, 6:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Tillman	3 hr
Jul 3, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	33 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.