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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Norman, OK

March 24, 1994Hughes County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 4:27 AM CST for Hughes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1994, 4:27 AM CST (10:27 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1994, 5:15 AM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hughes County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1994-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1994-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 5:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes35 min
Mar 24, 7:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka39 min
Mar 24, 8:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Pushmataha51 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.