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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Norman, OK
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Seymour-, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 57 min |
| Oct 12, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady, Stephens | 61 min |
| Oct 12, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 57 min |
| Oct 12, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 48 min |
| Oct 12, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 65 min |
| Oct 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 52 min |
| Oct 12, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 65 min |
| Oct 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 54 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.