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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Norman, OK

April 27, 1994Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 10:07 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1994, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garfield County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 594 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 724 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.6

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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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 27, 9:21 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 9:21 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 27, 4:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
432 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994

TIME/DATE              COUNTY              LOCATION/EVENT

1100 PM/26TH           ATOKA               DIME HAIL COVERING GROUND
                                            NEAR FARRIS.

1140 AM                MARSHALL            DIME HAIL IN LITTLE CITY.

1235 PM                NOBLE               DIME HAIL COVERED GROUND
                                            IN MARLAND.

1235 PM                KAY                 PEA TO DIME HAIL IN PONCA
                                           CITY. REPORTED BY CO. C.D.

1230-1235 PM           KAY                 PEA TO DIME HAIL 8 MILES
                                            SOUTH OF PONCA CITY ON HWY
                                            177.

100 PM                BLAINE              DIME HAIL IN LONGDALE.

121 PM                GARFIELD             PENNY SIZE HAIL 2 MI NORTH
      &                                      AND 1 MI WEST OF HILLSDALE.

419 PM                BLAINE               DIME HAIL 10 MILES WEST AND
                                            5 SOUTH OF WATONGA.
 KJ

Local storm report, Apr 27, 6:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
656 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994

TIME/DATE              COUNTY              LOCATION/EVENT

508 PM                 TILLMAN             GOLFBALL HAIL 1 MI SOUTHEAST
                                           OF FREDERICK.

545 PM                 CANADIAN            QUARTER HAIL 11 MILES WEST
                                           AND 4 MILES SOUTH OF EL RENO.

556 PM                 COMANCHE            DIME HAIL 0.75 MI NORTH OF
                                           MEERS.

558 PM                 COMANCHE            DIME HAIL IN INDIAHOMA.

600 PM                 KINGFISHER          QUARTER HAIL 4 MILES WEST AND
                                           2.5 NORTH OF OKARCHE.

624 PM                 BLAINE              DIME HAIL IN WATONGA REPORTED
                                           BY WATONGA F.D.

630 PM                 CADDO               DIME HAIL IN CARjNEGIE.

KJ

Local storm report, Apr 27, 6:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
656 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994

TIME/DATE              COUNTY              LOCATION/EVENT

135 PM                 JEFFERSON           NICKEL TO QUnARTER HAIL IN
                                           TERRAL.

KJ

Local storm report, Apr 27, 7:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
726 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994

TIME/DATE              COUNTY              LOCATION/EVENT

650 PM                 KINGFISHER          QUARTER HAIL IN LOYAL.

655 PM                 CADDO               GOLFBALL HAIL COVERED GROUND
                                           IN FORT COBB.

700 PM                 KINGFISHER          PEA TO DIME HAIL IN HENNESSEY

KJ

Local storm report, Apr 27, 8:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
841 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994

TIME/DATE              COUNTY              LOCATION/EVENT

535 PM                 KIOWA               NICKEL HAIL 6 MI EAST AND 1.5
                                           MI SOUTH OF SNYDER.
715 PM                 GARFIELD            DIME HAIL WAUKOMIS.

721 PM                 CANADIAN            GOLFBALL HAIL IN SCOTT.

750 PM                 CANADIAN            GOLFBALL HAIL 2 MI NORTH AND
                                           4.75 MI EAST OF EL RENO.

806 PM                 KINGFISHER          DIME HAIL 5 MI EAST AND 2.5
                                           MI SOUTH OF KINGFISHER.

KJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	45 min
Apr 27, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	43 min
Apr 27, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	47 min
Apr 27, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	40 min
Apr 27, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	49 min
Apr 27, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	39 min
Apr 27, 9:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	3 hr
Apr 27, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble	42 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.