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Special Weather Statement, NWS Norman, OK

August 22, 2026Kay County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2026, 4:21 AM CDT for Kay 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: Aug 22, 2026, 4:21 AM CDT (09:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2026, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Kay County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 1448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	35 min
Aug 22, 5:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Noble, Payne	5 hr
Aug 22, 5:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Payne	37 min
Aug 22, 5:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Cleveland	35 min
Aug 22, 5:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	31 min
Aug 22, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	42 min
Aug 22, 5:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	31 min
Aug 22, 6:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Aug 22, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	53 min
Aug 22, 6:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	35 min
Aug 22, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	43 min
Aug 22, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	43 min
Aug 22, 7:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie	3 hr
Aug 22, 7:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	32 min
Aug 22, 7:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Pottawatomie	31 min
Aug 22, 7:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	1 min
Aug 22, 7:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	3 hr
Aug 22, 1:48 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 38 more	30 hr
Aug 22, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	31 min
Aug 22, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	23 min
Aug 22, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	33 min
Aug 22, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	26 min
Aug 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	31 min
Aug 22, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	24 min
Aug 22, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	33 min
Aug 22, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox	31 min
Aug 22, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Knox, Wilbarger	35 min
Aug 22, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor, Knox, Wilbarger	37 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.