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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Norman, OK

May 6, 1994Kay County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1994, 8:09 PM CDT for Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 1994, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kay County, OK

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 May 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
340 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994

MESONET DATA INDCTS CDFNT HAS MOVD INTO FAR NWRN ZNS OF FA LATE THIS
AFTN. FNT WL CONT TO MOV SLOLY SEWD THIS EVE...AND THEN PICK UP A LTL
SPEED AS LOW AND MID LVL COOLING MOVS THRU THE CNTRL PLNS. ANY CNCTN
ALNG FNT CUD ALSO SPEED UP SWD MVMNT OF WND SHFT LINE. STRG CAP OVR AREA
HAS SUPPRESSED CNVCTN ALG THE FNT THUS FAR. MWHL.. QUITE A BIT OF HI
CLDS OVR CNTRL AND NRN OK HAS HELD TEMPS BLO VALUES NEEDED TO BRK THE
CAP DURG THE AFTN. HWVR... XPCT CNVCTN TO FINALLY BRK OUT LATE AFTN OR
EVE IN VCNTY OF FNT AND MOV INTO NRN OK. NWRN ZNS LOOK LESS FVRBL FOR
TSTMS DUE TO FNT MOVG THRU AREA... AND SHALLOWER LOW LVL MSTR FIELD. A
FEW SVR TSTMS WL BE PSBL DUE TO FVRBL LOW LVL SHR AND GUD
INSTABILITIES... ALTHO WIND SPDS ARE NOT ESP STRG. MODELS SUGGEST MID
LVL  COOLING MOVG INTO AREA LTR TNGT...WITH ETA MOST PRONOUNCED... WL
ERODE THE CAP. THE EROSION...COMBINED WITH CNVRGNC ALNG THE FNT... SHUD
AID TSTM DVLPMNT SWD ACRS AREA OVRNGT. BEST CHCS WL BE IN ERN HLF OF
AREA WHERE MSTR WL BE BEST AND CAP WEAKEST.

FNT XPCTD TO BE IN SCNTRL OR SERN OK BY MRNG...WITH CLDS BEGINNING TO
DCRS FM THE NW DURG THE DAY. BLV LFM/NGM MOS ARE TOO WRM/COLD FOR SAT...
AND WL GENLY GO SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN.

BIG QUESTION RMNS ON TIMING OF ERN PAC LOW OFF CA CST DURG EXTENDED PD.
MRF SEEMS TO BE TOO QUICK TO MOV CUT-OFF LOW EWD THRU FCST PD. WL BACK
OFF ON SPEED OF SYS AND LINGER CHC OF RAIN INTO WEDS.

FCSTID=32
HBR   58  75  50  77 / 30  20  0   10
OKC   61  72  51  75 / 50  30  0   0
SPS   62  77  53  78 / 20  20  0   10
GAG   54  70  47  74 / 30  10  0   10
PNC   58  70  49  73 / 60  10 . 0   0
DUA   64  74  55  77 / 30  60  10  0

.OKC...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 4:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
440 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994

TIME                 COUNTY            LOCATION/EVENT

430 PM                KAY             DIME SIZE HAIL AT PECKHAM

435 PM                KAY             DIME SIZE HAIL 4W OF NEWKIRK

MT

Local storm report, May 6, 4:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
440 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994

TIME                 COUNTY            LOCATION/EVENT

430 PM                KAY             DIME SIZE HAIL AT PECKHAM

435 PM                KAY             DIME SIZE HAIL 4W OF NEWKIRK

MT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	18 min
May 6, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	51 min
May 6, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	29 min
May 6, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	33 min
May 6, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	47 min
May 6, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	45 min
May 6, 11:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	40 min
May 7, 12:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Seminole	38 min
May 7, 12:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	29 min
May 7, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	40 min
May 7, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	27 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.