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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Norman, OK

June 3, 1993Payne County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1993, 3:28 AM CDT for Payne County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1993, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1993, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Payne County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 1993-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1821 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 1993-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper47 min
Jun 2, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods60 min
Jun 2, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper25 min
Jun 3, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward40 min
Jun 3, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods42 min
Jun 3, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Major, Woods45 min
Jun 3, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield35 min
Jun 3, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Logan, Noble45 min
Jun 3, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods40 min
Jun 3, 2:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne48 min
Jun 3, 2:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods45 min
Jun 3, 2:58 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNPayne32 min
Jun 3, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant46 min
Jun 3, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods53 min
Jun 3, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay47 min
Jun 3, 4:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay30 min
Jun 3, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield38 min
Jun 3, 5:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble40 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.