Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 1995, 6:20 PM CST for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 1995, 6:20 PM CST (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1995, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 Jan 12, 3:15 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 3:15 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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AFDOKC
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
315 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995
...SHORT TERM DISC...
MAIN WX MAKER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS CONTINUES TO EVOLVE OVER TX. MODELS
HAVE FAIRLY GOOD HANDLE ON THE S/W TROF NOW LOCATED OVER TX AS NWP
MODELS SHOW LOW CLOSING OFF BY FRI AFTN OVR THE TX GULF COAST. 12Z UA
CHARTS SHOW JET MAX OVR SW US CONTINUING TO DIG SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE
BASE OF THE NM/TX TROF...SO CAN SEE LITTLE REASON FOR UA LOW TO PULL OUT
OF REGION ANYTIME SOON. AT 19Z...SFC CLD FRONT WAS LOCATED THROUGH
CENTRAL OK AND PUSHING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. WITH SFC DWPTS IN THE MID 60S
IN NORTHCENTRAL TX...TSTMS FIRING IN CENTRAL TX...AND CD FRONT MOVING
THROUGH THE FA WILL KEEP POPS GOING IN THE SOUTHEAST FOR TNITE AND
TOMORROW. PLENTY OF MID/HIGH LVL CLDS OVR THE REST OF THE FA SO WL
KEEP CLDS IN THE FCST THROUGH MID AFTERNOON FRI. AS DIV Q FIELDS SO SOME
FORCING OVER THE FA THROUGH FRI AFTN...BETTER FORCING REMAINS WELL TO
THE SOUTHEAST. MOS NUMBERS LUK GOOD AS NEW PACKAGE REFLECTS THIS.
...LONG TERM DISC...
AS CLOSED LOW MOVES FURTHER EAST WILL SEE A RETURN TO CLR/PC SKIES OVR
THE FA. TEMPS WILL SLOLY MOVE UPWARD AS UA RIDGE BUILDS OVR FA. WILL
INTRODUCE LOW POPS ON TUES AS NEXT TROF MOVES IN FROM THE WEST.
MCCAMMON
FCSTID=31
PRELIM NUMBERS:
HBR 35 54 30 61 / 0 0 0 0
OKC 40 53 29 57 / 0 0 0 0
SPS 41 56 32 63 / 0 0 0 0
GAG 26 59 20 65 / 0 0 0 0
PNC 32 54 23 55 / 0 0 0 0
DUA 45 50 30 58 / 60 40 0 0
.OKC...NONE.
.TX...NONE.
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 45 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.