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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 587, NWS Norman, OK

October 2, 1994Garfield County, Major County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1994, 4:10 PM CDT for Garfield County, Major County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 2, 1994, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Garfield County, OK, Major County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -258 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 2, 4:10 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 4:10 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 2, 1:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 1:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 2:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
205 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994

TIME/DATE        COUNTY            EVENT

145 PM/2ND       MAJOR             DIME SIZE HAIL 10 MILES WEST OF
    6                               ORIENTA

JMW

Local storm report, Oct 2, 2:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
205 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994

TIME/DATE        COUNTY            EVENT

145 PM/2ND       MAJOR             DIME SIZE HAIL 10 MILES WEST OF
                                   ORIENTA

JMW

Local storm report, Oct 2, 4:05 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
405 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994

TIME/DATE        COUNTY           EVENT

315 PM/2ND       MAJOR            DIME SIZE HAIL AND 2 INCH DIAM. TREE
                                  LIMBS DOWN 8.25 MILES WEST OF ORIENTA.

340 PM/2ND       MAJOR            QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT ORIENTA.

JMW

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 4:08 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
405 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994

TIME/DATE        COUNTY           EVENT

315 PM/2ND       MAJOR            DIME SIZE HAIL AND 2 INCH DIAM. TREE
 R                                 LIMBS DOWN 8.25 MILES WEST OF ORIENTA.

340 PM/2ND       MAJOR            QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT ORIENTA.

JMW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	51 min
Oct 2, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods	45 min
Oct 2, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	42 min
Oct 2, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	39 min
Oct 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	47 min
Oct 2, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	32 min
Oct 2, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	48 min
Oct 2, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	46 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.