Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 593, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1994, 8:21 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1994, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Garfield County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 4:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 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
Local storm report, Oct 2, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
715 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994
TIME/DATE COUNTY EVENT
640 PM/2ND ALFALFA DIME SIZE HAIL. 11/2 INCHES OF
RAIN IN 20 MINUTES 3 MILES WEST AND
3/4 MILE SOUTH OF HELENA.
LRJLocal storm report, Oct 2, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
715 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994
TIME/DATE COUNTY EVENT
640 PM/2ND ALFALFA DIME SIZE HAIL. 11/2 INCHES OF
RAIN IN 20 MINUTES 3 MILES WEST AND
3/4 MILE SOUTH OF HELENA.
LRJLocal storm report, Oct 2, 7:50 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
750 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994
TIME/DATE COUNTY EVENT
725 PM/2ND GARFIELD QUARTER SIZE HAIL SOUTH SIDE OF ENID
AND DIME SIZE HAIL AT VANCE AIR FORCE
BASE
738 PM/2ND GARFIELD ONE-INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND 76 MPH WIND
GUST AT VANCE AIR FORCE BASE IN ENID.
LRJ/MTLocal storm report, Oct 2, 7:52 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
750 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994
TIME/DATE COUNTY EVENT
725 PM/2ND GARFIELD QUARTER SIZE HAIL SOUTH SIDE OF ENID
AND DIME SIZE HAIL AT VANCE AIR FORCE
BASE
738 PM/2ND GARFIELD ONE-INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND 76 MPH WIND
GUST AT VANCE AIR FORCE BASE I6N ENID.
LRJ/MTLocal storm report, Oct 2, 8:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 810 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994 TIME/DATE COUNTY EVENT 805 PM/2ND MAJOR DIME SIZE HAIL 8 MILES EAST OF OR\IENTA. LRJ
Local storm report, Oct 2, 8:10 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 810 PM CDT SUN OCT 02 1994 TIME/DATE COUNTY EVENT 805 PM/2ND MAJOR DIME SIZE HAIL 8 MILES EAST OF ORIENTA. LRJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major | 45 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
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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.