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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Norman, OK

June 8, 1993Kay County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT for Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
29 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 00:00Z, 0.0 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 00:00Z on 1993-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 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 1993-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 9, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche25 min
Jun 9, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo51 min
Jun 9, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche41 min
Jun 9, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton44 min
Jun 9, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton65 min
Jun 9, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady46 min
Jun 9, 1:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche46 min
Jun 9, 2:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche4 hr
Jun 9, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens48 min
Jun 9, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter63 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma56 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, McClain56 min
Jun 9, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Murray64 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole64 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Oklahoma64 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland64 min
Jun 9, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne61 min
Jun 9, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes57 min
Jun 8, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay44 min
Jun 8, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay57 min
Jun 9, 11:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox50 min
Jun 9, 12:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWilbarger42 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.