1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 3, 2:45 AM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 345 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 CONVECTION MOVING INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA...APPEARS TO BE MORE DRIVEN BY UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FROM SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER EASTERN COLORADO...WHILE CONVECTION MOVING INTO WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...IS MORE LARGELY INFLUENCED BY PROPAGATION FROM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. NEITHER COMPLEX IS FEEDING ON PARTICULARLY UNSTABLE AIR...HOWEVER HIGH POPS WILL BE NEEDED AS THIS RAINFALL LIKELY DIMINISHES OVER WESTERN AREAS THIS MORNING. LATEST RUC HAS A GOOD HANDLE ON THE UPPER LEVEL WIND PATTERN... SHOWING A JET STREAK ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE MENTIONED SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING INTO MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SHOULD DECREASE OUR CHANCES OF RENEWED CONVECTION OVER WESTERN AREAS THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WITH MID LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUING ACROSS THE ROCKIES...AND RESIDUAL CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW FROM THIS AM/PM...AND SOME UPSLOPE FLOW...CAN NOT RULE OUT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THIS UNSTABLE SYNOPTIC PATTERN OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS DEVELOPING AND/OR AMPLIFYING IN MID/UPPER LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. MODEL DIFFICULTIES IN RESOLVING THESE SHORT WAVELENGTH TROUGHS ALONG WITH MESOSCALE INFLUENCES FROM INSTABILITY AND LIFT...MAKES THIS A LOWER THAN AVERAGE CONFIDENCE FORECAST. COULD SEE ANOTHER AREA OF TSRA MOVING INTO WESTERN PARTS OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT..SIMILAR TO THIS MORNING...WITH ANOTHER GOOD CHANCE OF TSRA WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ETA/KF SUGGESTS THAT CONVECTIVE INITIATION MAY OCCUR OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS LATE WEDNESDAY. STRENGTHENING SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW OVER THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL ALLOW GREATER MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO BE AVAILABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO INFLUENCE A LARGER PART OF THE AREA...PARTICULARLY THE NORTHERN HALF...SO HIGHEST POPS STILL LOOK WARRANTED FOR THIS PERIOD. ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO PERIODS BEYOND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NOT CONFIDENT WILL SEE ANY PROLONGED PERIODS OF POPLESS FORECASTS WITHIN THE NEXT 7 DAYS. IF THE CURRENT MODELS ARE CORRECT...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT. WITH NO MAJOR LARGE SCALE PATTERN CHANGES SHOWN IN THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS...THIS FRONT MAY SIMPLY OSCILLATE OVER THE AREA...SUPPORTING ADDITIONAL CHANCES OF RAIN INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. CURRENTLY HAVE NO POPS FOR NEXT SUN/MON...WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH NEIGHBORING OFFICES...BUT FUTURE SHIFTS WILL NEED TO RECONSIDER ADDING THEM. OKC 78 62 79 69 / 30 30 30 50 HBR 80 62 80 69 / 80 40 30 50 SPS 83 65 82 69 / 80 40 30 50 GAG 79 57 79 66 / 90 40 30 50 PNC 73 59 76 67 / 20 20 30 50 DUA 84 65 81 69 / 30 20 30 40 .OUN... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. JAMES
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-031200-
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
353 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION...
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AT MID AFTERNOON WAS LOCATED ON AN AXIS
FROM MISSOURI SOUTHWESTWARD...ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO CENTRAL
TEXAS. THIS DISTURBANCE HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA...AND SUBSIDENCE
BEHIND IT WAS RESULTING IN A GENERAL DECREASE IN CLOUD COVER. AT THE
SURFACE...A COLD FRONT HAD MOVED INTO EXTREME EAST CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...WITH COOLER DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR
OVERSPREADING THE FORECAST AREA BEHIND THE FRONT. THE SINKING AIR
AND MORE STABLE CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA WILL LIMIT THE CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE
HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS...AS
ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MOVES SOUTHEAST FROM THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN
ROCKIES. THESE STORMS COULD MOVE INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS AFTER MIDNIGHT...BUT THE GREATER RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER
TONIGHT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN TO THE
NORTHWEST OF OKLAHOMA.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT TUESDAY JUN 3.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...40 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...20 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
CHANCES OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE HIGHER TUESDAY NIGHT
THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS WESTERN PARTS OF THE
AREA...AS ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES APPROACH FROM THE
NORTHWEST. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE
AREA INTO FRIDAY...AND POSSIBLY INTO SATURDAY...WITH HIGHER CHANCES
GENERALLY DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
ANY THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS WEEK COULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY
RAINFALL. IN ADDITION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING WITH
INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORM EVENTS...THERE WILL BE AN INCREASING
POTENTIAL FOR MAINSTEM RIVER FLOODING BY THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK
IF AREAS RECEIVE MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF HEAVY OR WIDESPREAD RAINFALL.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
TUESDAY.
24The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:38 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a house fire causing smoke damage throughout the house, destroying the kitchen, and severely damaging the roof.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, June 2003
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