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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 588, NWS Norman, OK

September 10, 1992Caddo County, Comanche County, Kiowa County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1992, 12:29 AM CDT for Caddo County, Comanche County, Kiowa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 1992, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1992, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Kiowa County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1992-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2412 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 1992-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
2412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey63 min
Sep 9, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills61 min
Sep 9, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay, Noble50 min
Sep 9, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills49 min
Sep 9, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield60 min
Sep 9, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble62 min
Sep 9, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills30 min
Sep 9, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher, Logan, Payne52 min
Sep 9, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham61 min
Sep 10, 12:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNMarshall3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.