Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT for Bryan County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bryan County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1096 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 497 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
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 Apr 19, 3:44 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 3:44 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA 345 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 SVR WX ALREADY UNDERWAY IN SRN PTN OF FA. FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION WEAKENED AS IT MOVED INTO CNTRL ZNS...DUE TO PRESENCE OF 700 +5 DEG CAP. HOWEVER...PRESENT CONVECTION ALONG WITH WARM FRONT NR RED RIVER CONTG NWD MAY HAVE ERODED CAP ENOUGH TO GET SVR STORMS OVR MOST OF AREA. N TX ZNS HAVE HAD LITTLE TROUBLE REACHING SVR LIMITS WITH BETTER UVVS...AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE IN THE AREA. AS SFC LOW OVR W TX TRACKS ACRS AREA TONIGHT...EXPECT TO SEE STG/SVR STORMS MUCH OF THE NIGHT. WL INCLUDE SOME SVR IN FCST. MODELS SHOW THAT MOST OF THE AREA WILL BECOME DRY SLOTTED TOMORROW AS LO MOVS ACRS KS. EXPECT TO SEE SOME WRAP-AROUND CLDS OVR NRN ZNS FOR MUCH OF THURS...WITH PC SKIES OVR AREA TOMORROW NIGHT AND FRIDAY AM. BY FRI PM/SAT AM...ETA DEPICTS LOW OVR KS COMBINING W/ SW TX AS A CDFNT WHICH MOVES ACRS FA. MRF BLENDS WELL WITH ETA/NGM FROPA...WITH HI BUILDING IN FOR REST OF WKEND THRU MON. WL RAISE MOS TEMPS FOR TONIGHT WITH WARM FNT MOVG OVR AREA...AND WENT A CAT BLO MOS ON HIGHS. ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMEST TO 3RD AND 4TH PD. FCSTID=17 HBR 52 73 45 76 / 60 20 0 10 OKC 54 71 46 76 / 50 20 0 0 SPS 52 75 47 78 / 70 20 0 0 GAG 48 65 42 68 / 40 30 0 10 PNC 53 69 45 68 / 40 20 0 10 DUA 56 75 50 77 / 70 20 0 0 .OKC...TORNADO WATCH ZNS 037-039-044>047-050>052. .TX...TORNADO WATCH ZNS 083>090.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:49 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
850 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1232 PM MANKINS TX NICKEL SIZE HAIL
04/19/95 ARCHER
423 PM 14 W OF BENJAMIN TX BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
04/19/95 KNOX
445 PM 6 E OF KNOX CITY TX GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
04/19/95 KNOX
541 PM TRUSCOTT TX 3/4 INCH HAIL
04/19/95 KNOX
525 PM MEGARGEL TX 3/4 INCH HAIL
04/19/95 ARCHER
642 PM 5 N OF MEGARGEL TX NICKEL SIZE HAIL
04/19/95 ARCHER
709 PM 4 S OF BURKBURNETT TX TORNADO REPORTED BY
04/19/95 WICHITA BURKBURNETT PD
713 PM 1.5 N OF BURKBURNETT TX GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
04/19/95 WICHITA
715 PM SRN EDGE OF BURKBURBNETT TX TORNADO REPORTED BY
04/19/95 WICHITA BURKBURNETT PD 0.5 S
OF I-44 AND DANIELS
SNLocal storm report, Apr 19, 10:04 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Tillman | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cotton | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Carter, Murray | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Stephens | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | McClain | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Carter | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Murray | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pushmataha | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Clay | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.