Severe Thunderstorm Warning 621, NWS Norman, OK

Issued

Oct 31, 1992, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)

Expired

Oct 31, 1992, 6:45 PM CST

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Norman, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Carter County, OK, Love County, 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.

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TTAA00 KOKC 010007
SVROKC
OKC085-C019-010045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
605 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OKLAHOMA CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA
     NORTHERN LOVE
    
     SOUTHEAST CARTER


INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     ARDMORE

AT 605 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF ARDMORE. QUARTER SIZE
HAIL WAS REPORTED FROM THIS STORM 8 MILES WEST OF MARIETTA.

THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO TO A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS.  REMEMBER...A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS OF OVER 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINS THAT
CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 31, 10:15 AM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1010 AM CST SAT OCT 31 1992

WMFNT HAS MOVD TO NEAR RED RVR BY MID MRNG...AND SHUD CONT NWD INTO
CNTRL OK DURG AFTN. FOG AND DRZL WL BE LFTG DURG MRNG HRS ESP OVR SRN
AND CNTRL ZNS. STG S/W MOVG THRU AZ SHUD BE AFFECTING SRN PLNS LATE
THIS AFTN AND TNGT. DRYLN OVR WRN TX SHUD SHARPEN UP LTR TDA ALTHOUGH
CONCERNED ABOUT XTNSV MID AND HIGH LVL CLDS MOVG OVR WRN TX AND INTO WRN
OK LIMITING AMT OF HTG BHD DRY LN. HWVR... STILL SVRL POS FOR SVR WX
CHCS TDA WITH JUICY 70 DWPTS INTO NRN TX...STG LOW LVL JET... MDT
ENVRNMNTL HELICITY EVIDENT IN HODOGRAPHS OVR CNTRL OK... AND APRCH OF
STG S/W. XPCTD TSTMS TO FIRE LATER TDA ALNG AND AHD OF DRYLN... PSBLY
EPANDING EWD ALNG WMFNT... AND SPRD EWD. TEMPS WL BE TRICKY FOR THIS
AFTN AS RPD WRMG WL OCCUR IN THOSE AREAS SWD OF WMFNT. OVRALL CURRENT
FCST PCKG GENLY ON TRACK.

32

.OK...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

In the hours before

TXZ077-312345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
447 PM CST SAT OCT 31 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CLAY...JACK AND MONTAGUE COUNTIES OF
THIS PORTION OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CST...

AT 440 PM THE WICHITA FALLS RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED JUST TO THE EAST OF THE JACK COUNTY LINE
NORTHEAST OF JACKSBORO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25
MILES AN HOUR.
 

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

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.