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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Norman, OK

June 7, 1993Kiowa County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1993, 3:54 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1993, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1993, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 12:00Z on 1993-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 884 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 12:00Z on 1993-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 342 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
884 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-494 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
337 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 7, 3:27 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant32 min
Jun 7, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson32 min
Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Kiowa, Tillman50 min
Jun 7, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo48 min
Jun 7, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche, Kiowa49 min
Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian50 min
Jun 7, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman46 min
Jun 7, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo26 min
Jun 7, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant, Kay51 min
Jun 7, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Grady48 min
Jun 7, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Kingfisher46 min
Jun 7, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Tillman34 min
Jun 7, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay47 min
Jun 7, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan43 min
Jun 7, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Tillman35 min
Jun 7, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Grady, Stephens47 min
Jun 7, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Cotton, Tillman25 min
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Cotton33 min
Jun 7, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWilbarger39 min
Jun 7, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Knox43 min
Jun 7, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox49 min
Jun 7, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox47 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox46 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.