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Tornado Warning 110, NWS Norman, OK

May 7, 2024Hughes County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2024, 1:44 AM CDT for Hughes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 13 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 7, 2024, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2024, 1:57 AM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County Hughes County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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 6, 10:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 3547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 8.3
Supercell composite: 27.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 7, 12:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 12:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 4:01 PM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Norman OK
401 PM CDT Mon May 6 2024

OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-072115-
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-
401 PM CDT Mon May 6 2024

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of northern...
western...central...and southern Oklahoma...and western north
Texas.

.DAY ONE...Through Tonight...

.SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STATEMENT...
Storm spotter groups and emergency management personnel across
Oklahoma and western north Texas should prepare for severe weather
operations.

.Thunderstorms...
A significant severe weather outbreak, with potentially two
rounds, is expected to impact Oklahoma and possible far northern
Texas through the evening hours. The atmospheric environment will
support storms with strong, long-lived tornadoes, destructive
very large hail, and damaging wind gusts 80 mph or greater.

Thunderstorms will develop across northwest and west-central
Oklahoma through late afternoon, moving eastward into central and
northern Oklahoma during the evening. An isolated storm or two is
also possible farther south across southwest Oklahoma and western
north Texas. A potential second round of severe thunderstorms
appears possible across central into south central and southeast
Oklahoma late evening and overnight.

.Excessive Rainfall...
Long-lived severe thunderstorms could produce rainfall amounts of
two to four inches, with locally higher amounts possible.
Excessive rainfall could lead to flash flooding this afternoon and
into tonight.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday...

.Thunderstorms...
Strong to severe storms are possible across southeast Oklahoma
Wednesday afternoon.

Get graphics and more details at weather.gov/norman...and follow
our weather forecast office on Twitter and Facebook.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 12:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 12:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 12:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 7, 12:48 AM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 12:50 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 7, 12:52 AM CDT, 52 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 6, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	3 hr
May 6, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Major	35 min
May 6, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	49 min
May 6, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	43 min
May 6, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield	38 min
May 6, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	48 min
May 6, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer	39 min
May 6, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Grant, Kay	46 min
May 6, 7:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major	4 hr
May 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	40 min
May 6, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan and 2 more	47 min
May 6, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Custer	35 min
May 6, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan and 2 more	40 min
May 6, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	48 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kay, Noble	45 min
May 6, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Garfield, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan and 3 more	38 min
May 6, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	40 min
May 6, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	30 min
May 6, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Noble	3 hr
May 6, 9:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble and 1 more	5 hr
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Garfield, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Noble and 2 more	63 min
May 6, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	40 min
May 6, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	42 min
May 6, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	38 min
May 6, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Payne	6 hr
May 6, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Payne	42 min
May 6, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	39 min
May 6, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Washita	48 min
May 6, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	45 min
May 6, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	32 min
May 6, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	46 min
May 6, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	32 min
May 6, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Lincoln	40 min
May 6, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	51 min
May 6, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain	31 min
May 6, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	32 min
May 6, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, Seminole	51 min
May 6, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton	35 min
May 6, 11:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln	5 hr
May 6, 11:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
May 7, 12:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	12 min
May 7, 12:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland	27 min
May 7, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	41 min
May 7, 12:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	5 hr
May 7, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	25 min
May 7, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	33 min
May 7, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens	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.