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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 591, NWS Norman, OK

October 2, 1994Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1994, 7:14 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 2, 1994, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garfield County, OK

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, 4:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 4:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
330 PM CDT SUN OCT 2 1994

1 -2 DAY DISC...CURRENT CONVCTN ACRS NW/ N CNTL OK FIRING ALONG S/W
LOCATED FM NRN KS THRU OK. MDLS SHOW HIER RH'S ASSOC WITH S/W TO
CONT TO MOV CNTL AND ERN OK OVRNGHT...SO HAVE POPS IN FOR CNTL AND SE OK
TNTE. NEXT 2 DAYS IN IN SWLY DIFL FLO PCPN PSBL ACRS ENTR FA...BUT BEST
POPS IN ERN PTNS IN BEST LO LVL...BEST CHCS IN AFTN HRS WITH MAX HTNG.
UPR RDG OVR SW CANADA CUTS OFF WRN UPR LO OFF FM WRLYS...AND IT CONT TO
DIG SSWD ACRS WRN US IN 1 TO 2 DAY PD. RESULT FOR FA IS TO KP SLY FLO
AT SFC AND SWLY ALOFT OVR AREA.

XTND DISC...IN EXTENDED PD...LO BGNS TO LIFT OUT TO E. BY LATE
TUE...ERLY WED SWLY FLO INCREASES. STG  CDFNT POSED TO MOVE OVR AREA
LATE THU - ERLY FRI AND BRING AN END TO WM PATRN. CONT SWLY FLO MAKES
IT HARD TO GET A HANDLE ON TIMING OF PCPN EVENTS. THUS WILL KP 20-30 PCT
POPS IN MOST ZNES WED THRU FRI.

FCSTID=07
HBR   59  90  58  85 / 20  20  20  30
OKC   60  86  58  81 / 30  30  20  30
SPS   59  90  58  85 / 20  20  20  30
GAG   55  88  54  81 / 10  20  20  20
PNC   59  87  57  80 / 30  30  20  30
DUA   62  88  60  85 / 20  30  20  30

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

PURPURA

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 6:25 PM CDT, 49 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
Oct 2, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	45 min
Oct 2, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	39 min
Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	30 min
Oct 2, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	47 min
Oct 2, 9:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	3 hr
Oct 2, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	45 min
Oct 2, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	45 min
Oct 3, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	46 min
Oct 3, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	55 min
Oct 3, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	49 min
Oct 3, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 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.