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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Norman, OK

April 5, 1990Love County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1990, 5:19 PM CDT for Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 5, 1990, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Love County, OK

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 5, 5:40 PM CDTHail 0.75Love, OK

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1990-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1990-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 180 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham43 min
Apr 5, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMarshall33 min
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan60 min
Apr 5, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMarshall30 min
Apr 5, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Bryan54 min
Apr 5, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha54 min
Apr 5, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove47 min
Apr 5, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan31 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.