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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Norman, OK

October 12, 1993Baylor County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 1993, 6:10 PM CDT for Baylor County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 1993, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baylor County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 12, 6:12 PM CDTTornado F1Seymour-, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1993-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1993-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Oct 12, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
315 PM CDT TUE OCT 12 1993

SHTWV MOVG OUT OF WTX BRUSHING ALG DVLPG DRYLN AND INITIATING TSTMS IN
ERN TX PHNDL. EXPCT TSTMS TO CONT TO DVLP AND PROPAGATE E/SE ALG H8
WMFNT. WL PLACE HIEST POPS TNGT ALG SRN ZNS AND WL MENTN SVR IN TX ZNS.
AFTER TNGT...STG WLY UPR FLO WITH SVRL SHTWVS SHUD INDUCE LEE TROF WITH
LO LVL WAA. FIRST OF THESE SHTWVS SHUD AFFECT NWRN OK WED NGT THEN SPRD
EWD ACRS RMNDR OF FA ON THU. MSTR AVAILABILITY ON THU IN QUESTION...ESP
IN ERN ZNS...SO WL KEEP POPS LOW. SCENERIO WL CONT THRU SAT WITH TIMING
BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT UNDER FAST FLO ALF. WL SHOTGUN SLGT CHC
POPS INTO 1ST 2 DAYS OF EFP.

..04..BSC

HBR   54  75  55  78 / 40  10  10
OKC   55  73  55  76 / 40  20  10
SPS   58  78  58  81 / 60  10  10
GAG   47  75  52  80 / 30  10  20
PNC   52  71  55  75 / 20  20  10
DUA   59  74  55  77 / 50  30  10

.OK...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson57 min
Oct 12, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, Stephens61 min
Oct 12, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHardeman57 min
Oct 12, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHardeman48 min
Oct 12, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor65 min
Oct 12, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWilbarger52 min
Oct 12, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Hardeman65 min
Oct 12, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.