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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

November 20, 2025Cleveland County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Nov 20, 2025, 9:21 AM CST for Cleveland County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 20, 2025, 9:21 AM CST (15:21 UTC)
Expired: Nov 20, 2025, 9:45 AM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 40

County Cleveland County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Nov 20, 5:29 AM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 5:29 AM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 20, 6:52 AM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 20, 6:59 AM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 20, 7:24 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 20, 7:57 AM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 20, 9:21 AM CST, 0 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
Nov 19, 6:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	34 min
Nov 19, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Stephens	31 min
Nov 19, 6:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	32 min
Nov 19, 7:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	25 min
Nov 19, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	37 min
Nov 19, 7:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	30 min
Nov 19, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	30 min
Nov 19, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	35 min
Nov 19, 8:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	26 min
Nov 19, 8:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	31 min
Nov 19, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	18 min
Nov 19, 8:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	22 min
Nov 19, 8:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	33 min
Nov 19, 8:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	28 min
Nov 19, 9:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	25 min
Nov 19, 9:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	34 min
Nov 19, 9:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	29 min
Nov 19, 9:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	28 min
Nov 19, 9:20 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	3 hr
Nov 19, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	21 min
Nov 19, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Noble, Payne	37 min
Nov 19, 9:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	35 min
Nov 19, 9:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	23 min
Nov 19, 9:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Lincoln	36 min
Nov 19, 9:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	35 min
Nov 19, 9:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	31 min
Nov 19, 10:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	26 min
Nov 19, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	30 min
Nov 19, 10:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	26 min
Nov 19, 10:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	23 min
Nov 19, 10:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	34 min
Nov 19, 11:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kiowa	34 min
Nov 19, 11:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	21 min
Nov 19, 11:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	15 min
Nov 20, 12:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Caddo	28 min
Nov 20, 12:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Canadian	32 min
Nov 20, 1:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Logan	30 min
Nov 20, 2:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	29 min
Nov 20, 4:14 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Atoka	3 hr
Nov 20, 6:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Stephens	31 min
Nov 20, 7:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Garvin	36 min
Nov 20, 7:57 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Murray	33 min
Nov 20, 8:35 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Nov 20, 9:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	30 min
Nov 20, 9:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Oklahoma	28 min
Nov 20, 10:11 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	2 hr
Nov 20, 10:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grady	59 min
Nov 20, 11:01 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	3 hr
Nov 20, 11:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	30 min
Nov 20, 12:35 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Lincoln	3 hr
Nov 20, 12:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	36 min
Nov 20, 1:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	31 min
Nov 20, 1:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	43 min
Nov 20, 1:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	32 min
Nov 20, 2:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	37 min
Nov 20, 2:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	34 min
Nov 20, 3:33 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Dewey, Major	3 hr
Nov 19, 6:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	30 min
Nov 19, 7:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	34 min
Nov 19, 7:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	34 min
Nov 19, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	32 min
Nov 19, 9:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	36 min
Nov 19, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	30 min
Nov 19, 10:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer, Baylor	33 min
Nov 19, 11:10 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	35 min
Nov 19, 11:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Clay	35 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.