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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 2026, 6:17 PM CST for Seminole County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 6, 2026, 6:17 PM CST (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2026, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
County Seminole County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:44 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Mar 6, 4:07 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 4:07 PM CST, 2 hours 10 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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| Mar 6, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 20 min |
| Mar 6, 7:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 27 min |
| Mar 6, 9:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Atoka | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 11:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Stephens | 23 min |
| Mar 7, 12:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 12:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 12:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Stephens | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Stephens | 18 min |
| Mar 7, 12:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 1:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Stephens | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 1:41 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OUN | Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie, Stephens | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:43 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Garvin, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 2:13 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Murray, Seminole | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 2:47 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Pontotoc | 28 min |
| Mar 7, 3:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray | 26 min |
| Mar 7, 3:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston and 3 more | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 3:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 12:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Archer | 28 min |
| Mar 7, 1:09 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 1:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Clay | 29 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.