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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Norman, OK

March 7, 1994Tillman County, Oklahoma; Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1994, 11:10 PM CST for Tillman County, Oklahoma; Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 1994, 11:10 PM CST (05:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1994, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Tillman County, OK, Wilbarger County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Mar 7, 3:18 PM CST, 7 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 3:18 PM CST, 7 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
310 PM CST MON MAR 7 1994

TYPICALLY TOUGH LATE WINTER FCST. ALL MODELS SAY THAT MSTR AND LIFT WL
BE ADEQUATE FOR WDSPRD PCPN FM LATER TNGT INTO TUE NGT. QUESTION IS WHEN
WILL THE CHG FM LIQUID TO FROZEN OCR AND WL SNOWFALL BE HVR AFTWD. AFT
LOOKING AT PC GRIDS DATA AND SEVERAL THICKNESS PREDICTORS HV DECIDED
THAT PCPN WL BEGIN AS RAIN TNGT BUT WL SWITCH TO SNOW BRF DABRK IN THE
XTRM NWRN COUNTIES...BFR NOON IN ABT THE NWRN 1/3RD OF OK AND DURG THE
AFTN GENLY EVERYWHERE NW OF ABOUT A SEMINOLE TO SPS LN. WL ISSUE WINTER
STORM WATCH FOR TUE NGT FOR THE AREA GENLY NW OF SEMINOLE TO SPS LN.
PRELIM #'S...

FCSTID=12
HBR   35  37  27  46 / 80  90  60  10
OKC   36  38  28  45 / 70  100 80  10
SPS   42  42  29  48 / 80  100 70  10
GAG   32  34  24  48 / 90  90  60  10
PNC   33  35  27  43 / 70  100 80  10
DUA   43  47  30  45 / 70  100 90  20

.OKC...WINTER S.TORM WATCH TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES 4 THRU
30, 33 THRU 38.

.TX...WINTER STORM WATCH TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT FOR 83 THRU 85, 87
AND 88.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 7, 9:26 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
926 PM CST MON MAR 7 1994

TIME               COUNTY               LOCATION/EVENT

900 PM             COMANCHE             DIME SIZE HAIL IN WICHITA
                                        MOUNTAIN ESTATES JUST
                                        EAST OF MEDICINE PARK.

905 PM             TILLMAN              DIME HAIL IN DAVIDSON.

910 PM             CADDO                QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT APACHE

915 PM             CADDO                QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT LAKE
                                        ELSWORTH.

KMJ

Local storm report, Mar 7, 9:54 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 7, 9:55 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 7, 10:28 PM CST, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 7, 10:29 PM CST, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 7, 11:00 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	52 min
Mar 7, 9:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	55 min
Mar 7, 9:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	25 min
Mar 7, 9:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	49 min
Mar 7, 10:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	39 min
Mar 7, 10:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	40 min
Mar 7, 10:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	51 min
Mar 7, 10:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	25 min
Mar 7, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	46 min
Mar 7, 10:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	47 min
Mar 7, 11:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	35 min
Mar 8, 12:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	36 min
Mar 8, 4:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	45 min
Mar 8, 4:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	57 min
Mar 8, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	27 min
Mar 8, 12:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin	30 min
Mar 8, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	31 min
Mar 8, 1:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	39 min
Mar 7, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	35 min
Mar 7, 8:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	52 min
Mar 7, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1994 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.