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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2024, 4:09 PM CST for Caddo County, Comanche County, Kiowa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 15 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 7, 2024, 4:09 PM CST (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2024, 4:24 PM CST
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Kiowa County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 7, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 508 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 7, 2:58 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 2:58 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Norman OK 321 PM CST Thu Mar 7 2024 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-082130- Harper-Woods-Alfalfa-Grant-Kay-Ellis-Woodward-Major-Garfield- Noble-Roger Mills-Dewey-Custer-Blaine-Kingfisher-Logan-Payne- Beckham-Washita-Caddo-Canadian-Oklahoma-Lincoln-Grady-McClain- Cleveland-Pottawatomie-Seminole-Hughes-Harmon-Greer-Kiowa-Jackson- Tillman-Comanche-Stephens-Garvin-Murray-Pontotoc-Coal-Cotton- Jefferson-Carter-Johnston-Atoka-Love-Marshall-Bryan-Hardeman- Foard-Wilbarger-Wichita-Knox-Baylor-Archer-Clay- 321 PM CST Thu Mar 7 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of northern... western...central...and southern Oklahoma...and western north Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight... .Thunderstorms... Thunderstorms will be possible through tonight across the western two-thirds of Oklahoma and western north Texas. Some of these storms could become severe with possible supercells producing up to golf ball size hail and 60 mph damaging wind gusts as the potential hazards. The tornado potential is very low but cannot be completely be ruled out should a supercell develop. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday... .Thunderstorms... Thunderstorms will be possible Friday morning into the early evening hours. Some of these storms could become severe with up to quarter size hail, with the highest risk across southeast Oklahoma toward the afternoon hours with up to golf ball size hail and damaging wind gusts as the two potential hazards. .Fire Weather... Fire weather conditions will be elevated across parts of western Oklahoma every afternoon beginning Sunday through Wednesday due to gusty south winds, drier air increasing across the Southern High Plains and warmer temperatures. Get graphics and more details at weather.gov/norman...and follow our weather forecast office on Twitter and Facebook.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 3:21 PM CST, 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 11:37 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Johnston | 23 min |
| Mar 6, 11:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 12:01 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 12:29 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 4:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Okfuskee | 34 min |
| Mar 7, 4:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Payne | 26 min |
| Mar 7, 6:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Noble | 37 min |
| Mar 7, 3:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Dewey | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 4:03 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Comanche | 42 min |
| Mar 7, 5:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Greer | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 5:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Alfalfa | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 5:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Grant | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 5:37 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harmon | 23 min |
| Mar 7, 5:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Washita | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 5:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Kingfisher | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 16 min |
| Mar 7, 3:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Knox | 27 min |
| Mar 7, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger | 50 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.