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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Norman, OK

May 25, 1994Knox County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 6:58 PM CDT for Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1994, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Knox County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 186 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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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 May 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
FPUS3 KOKC 252024

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
325 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

UPR SYS OVR SW U.S. MOVG/REFORMING EWD INTO XTRM WRN NM DURG NXT SRVL
HRS WITH S/WS ROTATING ARND UPR SYS. LLFLO NOT REAL STG BUT SVRL OTHER
PARAMETERS IN PLACE FOR SVRL ROUNDS OF TSTMS OVR FA NXT 24 TO 48 HRS.

MAY NEED FFWTCH FOR SRN PTN OF FA LTR. RNFL LAST NGT WAS SPOTTY AND
SINCE GRND NOT SATURATED OVR MUCH OF AREA WL WAIT TIL BNDRY BCMS BTR
ESTABLISHED. BLV SFC CDNFT ASSOCIATED WTH NRN S/W WL BCM BTR DEFINED AS
S/W MOVS INTO THE UPR MDWST LTR TDY AND SFC HI BLDS ACRS NRN PLAINS.
AS CDFNT BCMS BTR DEFINED AND MOVS INTO NRN OK TNGT AND CONVECTION ALG
OLD BNDRY TO THE S DVLPS FA MAY HAV 2 AREAS OF CONCERN FOR HVY RNFL AND
SVR WX.

UPR SYS SLO TO MOV OUT SO WL HOLD ON TO PCPN THRU MST OF THE AREA THRU
THUR NGT.

FCSTID=20
PRELIM NBRS

HBR   60  78  56  76/ 80  60  30  20
OKC   62  78  57  75/ 70  60  30  20
SPS   65  80  59  78/ 80  50  30  20
GAG   55  73  50  73/ 80  30  20  10
PNC   59  75  52  75/ 60  30  30  20
DUA   65  80  61  78/ 80  60  40  20

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 25, 3:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
340 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

...DELAYED REPORTS FROM EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 25TH...

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

1255 AM/25TH          GARVIN            SHED BLOWN OFF FOUNDATION AND
                                        DESTROYED...ROOFING MATERIAL
                                        PEELED OFF A TRAILER...AND TREE
                                        LIMBS DOWNED 4.5 MILES WEST OF
                                        WYNNEWOOD.

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Local storm report, May 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
340 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

...DELAYED REPORTS FROM EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 25TH...

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

1255 AM/25TH          GARVIN            SHED BLOWN OFF FOUNDATION AND
                                        DESTROYED...ROOFING MATERIAL
                                        PEELED OFF A TRAILER...AND TREE
                                        LIMBS DOWNED 4.5 MILES WEST OF
                                        WYNNEWOOD.

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Local storm report, May 25, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
345 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

338 PM                ELLIS             GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN SHATTUCK.

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Local storm report, May 25, 4:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
435 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

421 PM                WOODWARD         QUARTER SIZED HAI\L 10S OF TANGIER

CW
Local storm report, May 25, 4:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
435 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

TIME/DATE             COUNTY            EVENT/LOCATION

421 PM                WOODWARD         QUARTER SIZED HAIL 10S OF TANGIER

CW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton44 min
May 24, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens53 min
May 24, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Stephens51 min
May 24, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant52 min
May 24, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter47 min
May 24, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter50 min
May 24, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove51 min
May 24, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove34 min
May 25, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis59 min
May 25, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward65 min
May 25, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey52 min
May 25, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey38 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Dewey54 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster45 min
May 24, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Baylor50 min
May 24, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher44 min
May 24, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard41 min
May 24, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Knox44 min
May 24, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor46 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox43 min
May 25, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHardeman37 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.