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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 970, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2025, 10:13 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 3, 2025, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1711 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 Aug 3, 6:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 6:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 3, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods, Woodward | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major, Roger Mills and 2 more | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills, Woods and 1 more | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Kiowa, Major, Washita | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Washita | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 11:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 1:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, McClain | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 1:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 1:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 1:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin, Murray, Pottawatomie | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 1:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Jefferson | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Love | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 2:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Murray | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 2:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Love | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 3:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Love, Marshall | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 3:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Carter, Murray | 115 min |
| Aug 4, 3:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc, Seminole | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 3:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Love, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Love, Marshall | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 3:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Wichita, Wilbarger | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 2:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 22 min |
| Aug 4, 2:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 3:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 4:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 4:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 5:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 6:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Wichita | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 27 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.