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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Norman, OK

June 6, 1992Bryan County, Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1992, 2:49 AM CDT for Bryan County, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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
Jun 6, 1992, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1992, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 2:50 AM CDTHail 0.75Bryan, 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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 604 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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, Jun 5, 10:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ019-020-060400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
1000 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...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN IN EFFECT FOR HARDEMAN...FOARD...KNOX...
BAYLOR...WILBARGER...WICHITA...ARCHER...YOUNG...CLAY...JACK...AND MONTAGUE
COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 200AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING...

BY 10 PM CDT...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM HAD MOVED ALONG AND JUST NORTH
OF THE RED RIVER NEAR BURKBURNETT...THE STORNGEST PORTION OF THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN TILLMAN COUNTY OKLAHOMA...HOWEVER...
DOWNDRAFT/OUTFLOW WINDS MAY AFFECT THE EXTREME NORTHERN FRINGES OF
WICHITA COUNTY WITH GUSTY WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF
EAST AT 15 MPH.

ELSEWHERE...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
OCCURRING GENERALLY ALONG OR WEST OF A HOBART...CHILDRESS...MATADOR
LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MPH. POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED JUST NORTH AND WEST OF CHILDRESS.

IF PRESENT TRENDS CONTINUE...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL LIKELY
BE ISSUED OF PERSONS IN HARDEMAN COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1015 PM FRI JUN 5 1992

TIME(CDT)/DATE        COUNTY        LOCATION / REPORT

943 PM                GREER         QUARTER SIZE HAIL ON THE WEST SIDE
                                    OF MANGUM.

955 PM                COMANCHE      DIME SIZE HAIL ON THE EAST SIDE OF
                                    LAWTON.

955 PM                KIOWA         DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF LONE
                                    WOLF.

1001 PM               KIOWA         DIME SIZE HAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF
                                    HOBART.

1002 PM               KIOWA         DIME SIZE HAIL 1 MILE: WEST OF
                                    HOBART.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1035 PM FRI JUN 5 1992

TIME(CDT)/DATE        COUNTY        LOCATION / REPORT

1032 PM               STEPHENS0      BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 3 MILES NORTHEAST
                                    OF DUNCAN.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 11:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:25 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman57 min
Jun 5, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham53 min
Jun 5, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Harmon54 min
Jun 5, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman64 min
Jun 5, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa, Washita63 min
Jun 5, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham31 min
Jun 5, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady52 min
Jun 5, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Stephens64 min
Jun 5, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods, Woodward41 min
Jun 5, 10:51 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNStephens54 min
Jun 5, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Stephens39 min
Jun 6, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Murray49 min
Jun 6, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNSeminole45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.