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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Norman, OK

June 8, 1993Kay County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 5:55 PM CDT for Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1993, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1993, 6:20 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kay County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 1993-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3627 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 1993-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.3
Supercell composite
21.7

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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 7, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, Stephens46 min
Jun 7, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Grady, McClain46 min
Jun 7, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton47 min
Jun 7, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson, Stephens43 min
Jun 7, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNJefferson30 min
Jun 7, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Kiowa, Washita47 min
Jun 7, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Grady45 min
Jun 7, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian37 min
Jun 7, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma43 min
Jun 7, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian47 min
Jun 8, 12:10 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNCanadian35 min
Jun 8, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma49 min
Jun 8, 12:28 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNOklahoma32 min
Jun 8, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln47 min
Jun 8, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Kingfisher39 min
Jun 8, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan42 min
Jun 8, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield52 min
Jun 8, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant31 min
Jun 8, 8:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson66 min
Jun 8, 9:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin45 min
Jun 8, 10:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc49 min
Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan50 min
Jun 8, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka52 min
Jun 8, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay48 min
Jun 8, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha65 min
Jun 8, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay48 min
Jun 7, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Wichita, Wilbarger31 min
Jun 7, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWichita37 min
Jun 8, 5:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox44 min
Jun 8, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox65 min
Jun 8, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher43 min
Jun 8, 7:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay40 min
Jun 8, 10:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher43 min
Jun 8, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher60 min
Jun 8, 11:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay56 min
Jun 8, 3:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNArcher, Clay4 hr
Jun 8, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay48 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.