Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1993, 7:56 PM CST for Cotton County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1993, 7:56 PM CST (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1993, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cotton County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Mar 29, 3:46 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:46 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 345 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993 BETWEEN SVR WX AND THE ICWF HV LTL TIME FOR DISC THIS AFTN...LOOKS RAINY THRU TUE WITH POPS DCRG FM W TO E TUE NGT AND WED AS UPR LVL LOW SLOWLY MOVS EWD. HV GONE WL ABV FPC MIN TEMPS FOR TNGT DUE CLDS AND HI DEWPNTS EXPECTED. PRELIM #'S... OKC 59/67/48/60 7854 GAG 48/62/42/56 8742 HBR 57/68/44/62 8732 PNC 58/67/47/58 7854 SPS 62/72/49/64 8632 " 12 .OK...NONE .TX...NONE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 29, 6:15 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED FROM THIS MORNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
600 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993
TIME COUNTY EVENT
345 PM BECKHAM SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL AT SAYRE
REPORTED BY SAYRE FD
345 PM ROGER MILLS QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT BERLIN
412 PM BECKHAM TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST WEST OF
ELK CITY
420 PM GREER QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES
NORTHEAST OF REED
420 PM BECKHAM QUARTER SIZE HAIL 7 MILES SOUTH
OF CARTER
430 PM BECKHAM DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF
CARTER
518 PM KIOWA QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT SENTINEL
537 PM WASHITA 60-70 MPH WINDS 3 SOUTH OF
WEATHERFORD
548 PM HARMON DIME SIZE HAIL AT HOLLISLocal storm report, Mar 29, 6:32 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED FROM THIS MORNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
620 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993
TIME COUNTY EVENT
440 PM JACKSON 70 TO 80 MPH WINDS AT GRANITE
515 PM GREER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT MANGUM
515 PM JACKSON 60 MPH WINDS AT ALTUS
544 PM JACKSON 1/2 INCH HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF
ALTUS
548 PM KIOWA QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT HOBART
558 PM KNOX 1 INCH HAIL IN NORTH KNOX COUNTYLocal storm report, Mar 29, 7:42 PM CST, 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED FROM THIS MORNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
740 PM CST MON MAR 29 1993
TIME COUNTY EVENT
425 PM HARMON NICKEL-SIZE HAIL 2-3 INCHES DEEP
6 MILES SW OF HOLLIS
430 PM S HARMON DIME-SIZE HAIL COVERED GROUND AT
AT HOLLIS
438 PM CUSTER 60 MPH WIND; TREES DOWN IN FOSS
445 PM CUSTER GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL EAST SIDE OF
FOSS LAKE
500 PM SW JACKSON QUARTER-SIZE HAIL AT ELDORADO
500 PM NW KIOWA QUARTER-SIZE HAIL 13 MILES NW OF
LONE WOLF
555 PM WILBARGER NICKEL-SIZE HAIL AT VERNON
605 PM WILBARGER GOLF-BALL-SIZE HAIL AT VERNON
602 PM WILBARGER QUARTER-SIZE HAIL AT OKLAUNION
640 PM WILBARGER DIME-SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WINDS
2 MILES EAST OF HAROLD
650 PM KNOX GOLF-BALL-SIZE HAIL 6 MILES SW OF
BENJAMIN
655 PM WICHITA 56 MPH WINDS AT ELECTRA
715 PM COMANCHE QUARTER-SIZE HAIL WEST OF CASHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cotton | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 54 min |
| Mar 29, 8:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Tillman | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 9:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Tillman | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Cotton | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady, McClain | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Stephens | 67 min |
| Mar 29, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 67 min |
| Mar 29, 10:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Murray | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Murray, Pontotoc | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Pontotoc | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 1:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.