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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 855, NWS Norman, OK

June 29, 20254 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2025, 11:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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 29, 2025, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2025, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 2682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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 29, 11:11 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 11:11 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 8:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
857 PM CDT Sun Jun 29 2025

OKZ008-300245-
Kay OK-
857 PM CDT Sun Jun 29 2025

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northeastern Kay
County through 945 PM CDT...

At 857 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking the leading edge of winds
from severe thunderstorms along a line extending from 5 miles
southwest of Geuda Springs to 6 miles northwest of Hardy to near
Elgin. Movement was southeast at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Ponca City, Newkirk, Kaw City, Kildare, Chilocco, Kaw Lake, and
Hardy.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3678 9676 3678 9679 3677 9679 3677 9682
      3675 9682 3675 9688 3674 9690 3674 9712
      3700 9717 3700 9675
TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 316DEG 31KT 3707 9723 3701 9690 3700 9627

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

MDU

Local storm report, Jun 29, 9:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:14 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:46 PM CDT, 9 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 29, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	48 min
Jun 29, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	52 min
Jun 29, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	46 min
Jun 29, 10:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Kay	3 hr
Jun 29, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	32 min
Jun 29, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Kay	45 min
Jun 29, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	24 min
Jun 29, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	31 min
Jun 29, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	42 min
Jun 29, 11:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Kay	3 hr
Jun 29, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	29 min
Jun 29, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	31 min
Jun 30, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major, Noble and 1 more	45 min
Jun 30, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	34 min
Jun 30, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	27 min
Jun 30, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	35 min
Jun 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	32 min
Jun 30, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie	30 min
Jun 30, 2:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Major	35 min
Jun 30, 6:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Jun 30, 8:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	31 min
Jun 30, 8:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	27 min
Jun 30, 8:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Washita	33 min
Jun 30, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal	31 min
Jun 30, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	42 min
Jun 30, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	33 min
Jun 30, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	31 min
Jun 30, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	38 min
Jun 30, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche	34 min
Jun 30, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	42 min
Jun 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	41 min
Jun 30, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hughes	49 min
Jun 30, 5:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche, Garvin	52 min
Jun 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	50 min
Jun 30, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pontotoc	34 min
Jun 30, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	33 min
Jun 30, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Pontotoc	42 min
Jun 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pontotoc	7 hr
Jun 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Tillman	25 min
Jun 30, 5:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	6 hr
Jun 30, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal, Garvin, Pontotoc	37 min
Jun 30, 5:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Comanche, Garvin, Grady, Stephens	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens	32 min
Jun 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Coal, Murray, Pontotoc	44 min
Jun 30, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	42 min
Jun 30, 6:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka, Coal	5 hr
Jun 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	47 min
Jun 30, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wilbarger	24 min
Jun 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita, Wilbarger	44 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.