Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 508, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1992, 1:14 AM CDT for Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 2, 1992, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1992, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Alfalfa County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 1:25 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Alfalfa, OK | |
| Sep 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Alfalfa, 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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.
NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 1, 9:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 9:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
905 PM CDT TUE SEP 1 1992
ISOLD SVR TSTMS HAV DVLPD IN NW OK IN ADVNCE OF WK S/W XTNG FM NERN CO
SWD INTO TX PNHNDL. STMS ALSO AIDED BY STG H8 WAA ACRS ERN TX PNHNDL/WRN
OK. TSTMS LKLY TO PERSIST AT LEAST A FEW MOR HOURS GIVEN PREVIOUS
FACTORS...THUS CURNT FCST OF HI CHC CAT POPS MOST SECS APPEARS RSNBL. WL
BOOST POPS IN N-CNTRL OK SLGTLY TNGHT. HAVE NOT HAD ENUF TIME TO LUK AT
LATER PDS.
WSO SPS...BASED ON CONVCTN ACRS TX SOUTH PLAINS MOVG GENLY TWDS NWRN TX
ATTM...DO NOT PLAN TO CHG YOUR FCST. IF YOUR THOUGHTS DIFFER...PLS
CALL.
...15...
.OK...NONE.
.TX...NONE.In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 1, 9:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Sep 1, 9:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
940 PM CDT TUE SEP O1 1992...CORRECTED
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
927 PM WOODWARD NICKEL-SIZED HAIL 8 MI NORTH OF
WOODWARD.
930 PM HARPER DIME-SIZED HAIL 10 MI SOUTHEAST
OF SELMAN ON HARPER/WOODWARD
COUNTY LINE.Local storm report, Sep 1, 9:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
945 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
932 PM WOODS DIME-SIZED HAIL 2 MI SOUTH OF
LOOKOUT.Local storm report, Sep 1, 10:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1005 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
1000 PM WOODWARD DIME-SIZE HAIL 5.5 MI NORTHEAST
OF MOORELAND.
1006 PM WOODWARD NICKEL-SIZE HAIL IN MOORELAND.Local storm report, Sep 1, 11:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1125 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992 TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT 1120 PM WOODS 1-INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN FREEDOM.
Local storm report, Sep 1, 11:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1150 PM CDT TUE SEP 01 1992
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
1145 PM GARFIELD NICKEL-SIZE HAIL AT ENID POLICE
DEPARTMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woodward | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 48 min |
| Sep 1, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods, Woodward | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 48 min |
| Sep 2, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 27 min |
| Sep 2, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Garfield | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kay | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 43 min |
| Sep 2, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 67 min |
| Sep 2, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 19 min |
| Sep 2, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 21 min |
| Sep 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 22 min |
| Sep 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | McClain | 33 min |
| Sep 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Pontotoc | 43 min |
| Sep 2, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | McClain | 47 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.