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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this winter storm warning at Feb 17, 2025, 9:14 AM CST for 8 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 21 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2025, 9:14 AM CST (15:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2025, 8:54 PM CST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 17, 5:25 AM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 5:25 AM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:14 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | OUN | Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 34 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:24 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 42 more | 69 hr |
Nearby
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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.