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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 656, NWS Norman, OK

June 2, 2024Baylor County, Knox County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2024, 1:22 PM CDT for Baylor County, Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 2, 2024, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2024, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baylor County, TX, Knox County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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
Jun 2, 11:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 272 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: 2524 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.9

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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 Jun 1, 6:34 PM CDT, 18 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 6:34 PM CDT, 18 hours 48 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
Jun 1, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	35 min
Jun 1, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	44 min
Jun 1, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	32 min
Jun 1, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	48 min
Jun 1, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	25 min
Jun 1, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	29 min
Jun 1, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	19 min
Jun 1, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	36 min
Jun 1, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	34 min
Jun 1, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	20 min
Jun 1, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Woods	8 min
Jun 1, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	32 min
Jun 1, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	27 min
Jun 1, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Major, Woods, Woodward	21 min
Jun 2, 12:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woods	36 min
Jun 2, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Major	33 min
Jun 2, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	30 min
Jun 2, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harper	34 min
Jun 2, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Harmon	25 min
Jun 2, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	12 min
Jun 2, 8:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman	37 min
Jun 2, 8:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	45 min
Jun 2, 8:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	25 min
Jun 2, 8:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Jackson, Tillman	31 min
Jun 2, 9:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	47 min
Jun 2, 9:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson	3 hr
Jun 2, 9:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa	24 min
Jun 2, 9:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Jackson	3 hr
Jun 2, 10:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	28 min
Jun 2, 10:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	26 min
Jun 2, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	45 min
Jun 2, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	38 min
Jun 2, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	32 min
Jun 2, 10:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	25 min
Jun 2, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	49 min
Jun 2, 11:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa, Tillman	47 min
Jun 2, 11:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	6 hr
Jun 2, 11:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	38 min
Jun 2, 11:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	29 min
Jun 2, 11:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa	51 min
Jun 2, 11:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	28 min
Jun 2, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	36 min
Jun 2, 11:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Stephens	4 hr
Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	53 min
Jun 2, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton, Stephens	53 min
Jun 2, 12:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	38 min
Jun 2, 12:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain	52 min
Jun 2, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	37 min
Jun 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan, Oklahoma	32 min
Jun 2, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Stephens	41 min
Jun 2, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	41 min
Jun 2, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jefferson	32 min
Jun 2, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Murray, Stephens	56 min
Jun 2, 2:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love, Murray and 2 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln, Seminole	46 min
Jun 2, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	56 min
Jun 2, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	51 min
Jun 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	42 min
Jun 2, 3:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	5 hr
Jun 2, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	38 min
Jun 2, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	59 min
Jun 2, 4:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Bryan	4 hr
Jun 2, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	53 min
Jun 2, 7:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	36 min
Jun 2, 9:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	27 min
Jun 2, 10:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	24 min
Jun 2, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	45 min
Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	49 min
Jun 2, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	45 min
Jun 2, 1:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Foard, Knox	4 hr
Jun 2, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita	49 min
Jun 2, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	47 min
Jun 2, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	40 min
Jun 2, 2:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Baylor, Knox	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	32 min
Jun 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	48 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.