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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Norman, OK

May 10, 1992Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1992, 6:43 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 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: May 10, 1992, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garfield County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 6:46 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Garfield, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 5:47 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 6:06 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 6:17 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 6:26 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 6:36 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 6:41 PM CDT, 2 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
May 10, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	43 min
May 10, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	50 min
May 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Oklahoma	46 min
May 10, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	43 min
May 10, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	45 min
May 10, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	51 min
May 10, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	54 min
May 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	60 min
May 10, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	67 min
May 10, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	61 min
May 10, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	61 min
May 10, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	61 min
May 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	47 min
May 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	45 min
May 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	60 min
May 10, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	56 min
May 10, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	48 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.