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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Norman, OK

April 16, 202629 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this wind advisory at Apr 16, 2026, 11:20 PM CDT for 29 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2026, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 18, 2026, 4:03 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK

All 33 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 5468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 16, 11:17 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 11:17 PM CDT, 3 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
Apr 17, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Dewey	31 min
Apr 17, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Kay	37 min
Apr 17, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	43 min
Apr 17, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Alfalfa	37 min
Apr 17, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	28 min
Apr 17, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	38 min
Apr 17, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Noble	23 min
Apr 17, 3:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward	3 hr
Apr 17, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	49 min
Apr 17, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	23 min
Apr 17, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	31 min
Apr 17, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Grant	30 min
Apr 17, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Woodward	29 min
Apr 17, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	52 min
Apr 17, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woodward	49 min
Apr 17, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	49 min
Apr 17, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Grant	50 min
Apr 17, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major	50 min
Apr 17, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	11 min
Apr 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Major	31 min
Apr 17, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	20 min
Apr 17, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	43 min
Apr 17, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Noble	48 min
Apr 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Grant, Kay	24 min
Apr 17, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey, Major	51 min
Apr 17, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	41 min
Apr 17, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kay	40 min
Apr 17, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Kay	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.