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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 641, NWS Norman, OK

November 10, 1992Comanche County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1992, 11:14 PM CST for Comanche County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 1992, 11:14 PM CST (05:14 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 1992, 11:45 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Comanche County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 10, 9:00 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 10, 9:00 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 10, 8:31 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 10, 9:25 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 10, 10:30 PM CST, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 10, 10:54 PM CST, 20 minutes before

TXZ076-077-110550-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
1050 PM CST TUE NOV 10 1992

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE...

AT 1045 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG STORMS ALONG A NEAR STATIONARY
COLD FRONT FROM EAST OF OKLAHOMA CITY TO LAWTON TO NEAR CROWELL TEXAS.

A VERY STRONG STORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF VERNON IN WILBARGER
COUNTY. WILBARGER CO. AUTHORITIES REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL AT 1040 PM CST WITH
THIS STORM...BUT THE HEAVIEST PART OF THE STORM IS ALONG THE RED RIVER
NORTH OF VERNON. A SLOW NORTHEAST MOVEMENT WILL PUT THIS VERY STRONG STORM
IN TILLMAN COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA WITHIN 15 MINUTES.
EASTWARD FROM NEW MEXICO AND WILL PASS NEARx THE WICHITA FALLS AREA.

THIS IS THE LAST STATEMENT TO BE ISSUED UNLESS STRONG THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT OCCURRS.

Local storm report, Nov 10, 10:55 PM CST, 19 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1055 PM CST TUE NOV 10 1992

DATE / TIME(CST)   COUNTY         REPORT

10TH / 1000 PM     TILLMAN        WATER COVERING STATE HIGHWAY 5 SOUTH
                                  OF TIPTON.  REPORTED BY TILLMAN COUNTY
                                  CIVIL DEFENSE.

Special weather statement, Nov 10, 10:57 PM CST, 17 minutes before

TXZ076-077-110550-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX
1050 PM CST TUE NOV 10 1992

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE...

AT 1045 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG STORMS ALONG A NEAR STATIONARY
COLD FRONT FROM EAST OF OKLAHOMA CITY TO LAWTON TO NEAR CROWELL TEXAS.

A VERY STRONG STORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF VERNON IN WILBARGER
COUNTY. WILBARGER CO. AUTHORITIES REPORTED PEA S|IZE HAIL AT 1040 PM CST WITH
THIS STORM...BUT THE HEAVIEST PART OF THE STORM IS ALONG THE RED RIVER
NORTH OF VERNON. A SLOW NORTHEAST MOVEMENT WILL PUT THIS VERY STRONG STORM
IN TILLMAN COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA WITHIN 15 MINUTES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 7:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Tillman	3 hr
Nov 10, 8:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland	3 hr
Nov 10, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	28 min
Nov 10, 9:56 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cotton, Stephens	3 hr
Nov 10, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	61 min
Nov 10, 10:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	59 min
Nov 10, 10:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Tillman	3 hr
Nov 11, 12:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cotton, Stephens	3 hr
Nov 11, 1:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Grady	4 hr
Nov 11, 1:53 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	6 hr
Nov 11, 1:53 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Seminole	6 hr
Nov 11, 2:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Tillman	3 hr
Nov 11, 7:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	3 hr
Nov 11, 7:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hughes	3 hr
Nov 11, 1:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	40 min

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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.