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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 9:53 PM CDT for Grady County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1992, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grady County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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, Jun 5, 8:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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TXZ019-020-060315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 910 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES...FOARD...HARDEMAN AND WILBARGER. JUST AFTER 9 PM CDT...A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM JUST NORTH OF THE RED RIVER FROM NORTHEAST OF VERNON INTO THE LAWTON VICINITY...MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 15 MPH. ELSEWHERE...A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING OUT OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WITH THE LEADING EDGE GENERALLY ALONG OR WEST OF A GAGE...WELLINGTON...MEMPHIS LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MPH. WITH UERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ACROSS THIS SECTION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...THUNDERSTORMS WITH SEVERE WEATHER PARAMETERS WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN WICHITA AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTY AREA TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 9:24 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 925 PM FRI JUN 5 1992 TIME(CDT)/DATE COUNTY LOCATION / REPORT 901 PM TILLMAN N GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN FREDERICK 902 PM TILLMAN QUARTER SIZE HAIL NEAR FREDERICK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Stephens | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Stephens | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Stephens | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Murray | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Choctaw | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.