Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1992, 5:44 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 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 11, 1992, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Choctaw, 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, May 11, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
230 PM MON MAY 11 1992
DELAYED REPORTS FOR SUNDAY MAY 10, 1992...
TIME(CDT) COUNTY LOCATION / REPORT
320 PM BECKHAM HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE IN ERICK.
700 PM CADDO NICKEL SIZE HAIL 2 NE OF ANADARKO.
445 PM LOGAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL 1/2 N OF CO. LINE AND 2 W
OF HWY 77.
430 PM CANADIANt DIME SIZE HAIL 5 ENE OF EL RENO.Special weather statement, May 11, 2:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
OKC083-112030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 230 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM FOR LOGAN COUNTY HAS BEENR CANCELLED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL PAYNE COUNTY.
Special weather statement, May 11, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ019-020-112130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 326 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM TONIGHT FOR COTTON COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES ARCHER...CLAY...JACK...MONTAGUE AND YOUNG... AT 325 PM THE WICHITA FALLS RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...BETWEEN MUSKOGEE AND MARIETTA OF OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM EAST OF DECATUR EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO MINERAL WELLS. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS WELL EAST OF THE WICHITA FALLS AREA. MONTAGUE AND JACK COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ON ALERT TO RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Local storm report, May 11, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 436 PM MON MAY 11 1992 TIME(CDT) COUNTY LOCATION / REPORT 200 PM JEFFERSON QUARTER SIZED HAIL 2 S OF OSCAR. 2145 PM LOVE NICKEL SIZED HAIL 9 S OF WILSON.
Special weather statement, May 11, 5:02 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
TXZ019-020-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 500 PM CDT MON MAY 11 1992 ...A TORNOAD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT...ARCHER...CLAY...JACK...MONTAGUE...AND YOUNG. NO PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES...HOWEVER...A SCATTERING OF RAINSHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NOTED NORTH OF THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. IN THE SOONER STATE...SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING ALONG AND NORTH OF THE RED RIVER NEAR LAKE TEXOMA...EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO THE MCALESTER VICINITY. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY TOWARDS THE EAST AT 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 11, 5:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 63 min |
| May 10, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 49 min |
| May 10, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 54 min |
| May 10, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 48 min |
| May 10, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 66 min |
| May 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 60 min |
| May 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 57 min |
| May 11, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 45 min |
| May 11, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Murray | 53 min |
| May 11, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Garvin, Pontotoc | 31 min |
| May 11, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 51 min |
| May 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Payne | 60 min |
| May 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 60 min |
| May 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 50 min |
| May 11, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 60 min |
| May 11, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 69 min |
| May 11, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Murray | 68 min |
| May 11, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Coal, Pontotoc | 45 min |
| May 11, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 45 min |
| May 11, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love, Marshall | 64 min |
| May 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Coal | 45 min |
| May 11, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka | 36 min |
| May 11, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 48 min |
| May 11, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal | 60 min |
| May 11, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 68 min |
| May 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 55 min |
| May 11, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kay | 47 min |
| May 11, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 42 min |
| May 11, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Marshall | 54 min |
| May 11, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pushmataha | 69 min |
| May 11, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 30 min |
| May 11, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pushmataha | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.