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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 474, NWS Norman, OK

July 7, 19944 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1994, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carter County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 1994-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3614 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1994-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
6.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian50 min
Jul 7, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma60 min
Jul 7, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo49 min
Jul 7, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche66 min
Jul 7, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain49 min
Jul 7, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Payne49 min
Jul 7, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie50 min
Jul 7, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Garvin, Grady, Stephens50 min
Jul 7, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton50 min
Jul 7, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, McClain, Murray, Pontotoc, Stephens69 min
Jul 7, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton, Jefferson69 min
Jul 7, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole69 min
Jul 7, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson45 min
Jul 7, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove45 min
Jul 7, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMarshall30 min
Jul 7, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCoal30 min
Jul 8, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Johnston67 min
Jul 8, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Love, Marshall67 min
Jul 8, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan58 min
Jul 7, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.