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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Norman, OK

April 3, 2025Baylor County, Knox County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2025, 5:09 AM CDT for Baylor County, Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
Apr 3, 2025, 5:09 AM CDT (10:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
51 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 10:09 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 3, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -85 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 3:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNJefferson25 min
Apr 3, 4:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBryan21 min
Apr 3, 5:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBryan29 min
Apr 3, 5:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNLove38 min
Apr 3, 5:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Marshall35 min
Apr 3, 5:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNAtoka36 min
Apr 3, 6:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNAtoka30 min
Apr 3, 7:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCarter, Love32 min
Apr 3, 8:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Johnston, Murray25 min
Apr 3, 8:24 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryOUNAtoka57 hr
Apr 3, 8:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Marshall, Murray and 1 more24 min
Apr 3, 9:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole45 min
Apr 3, 11:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCarter, Murray92 min
Apr 3, 11:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNCarter, Murray83 min
Apr 3, 1:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNBaylor43 min
Apr 3, 2:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNArcher26 min
Apr 3, 2:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNArcher32 min
Apr 3, 3:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNClay32 min
Apr 3, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher35 min
Apr 3, 3:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNClay31 min
Apr 3, 4:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay22 min
Apr 3, 5:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNKnox28 min
Apr 3, 5:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNArcher, Wichita31 min
Apr 3, 6:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOUNWichita30 min
Apr 3, 6:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay43 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.