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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Norman, OK

May 3, 1995Marshall County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1995, 10:28 PM CDT for Marshall County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 1995, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Marshall County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 May 3, 3:59 AM CDT, 18 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 3:59 AM CDT, 18 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
400 AM CDT WED MAY 3 1995

ANOTHER COOL DAY IN STORE...  LGT PCP WILL LIKELY CONT THIS MORNING THEN
INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AS UPPER SYSTEM APPROACHES.  POPS WILL NOT BE
HIGH HOWEVER...DUE TO THE SPOTTY NATURE OF PRECIP. SOUTHERN ZONES ARE IN
SLGT RISK AREA AND THIS SEEMS REASONABLE.  BREAKS IN CLOUDS SHOULD ALLOW
SOME HEATING TODAY AND MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES PROGGED TO APPROACH 20
DEGREES.  THINK HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT DUE TO COLD NATURE OF
AIRMASS AND WIND SHEAR PROFILES. SFC WINDS WILL SLACKEN TODAY AS SFC LOW
MOVES OVER WRN ZONES. MOS SEEMS TO REFLECT CLOUDS AND COOL AIRMASS SO
WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR FROM MOS TEMPS.

FCSTID=10
HBR   71  50  71  51 / 20  30  0   0
OKC   67  54  72  53 / 30  40  0   0
SPS   74  53  75  54 / 20  30  0   0
GAG   65  48  67  47 / 20  20  0   0
PNC   63  50  68  50 / 40  50  10  0
DUA   67  56  73  53 / 20  50  30  0

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 8:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
810 PM CDT WED MAY 3 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1945 PM    2SE COOPERTON            OK    1 INCH HAIL
5/3/95     KIOWA

1945 PM    5 W OF LAWTON            OK    .88 INCH HAIL
5/3/95     COMANCHE

1948 PM    SW CORNER OF LAWTON      OK    1 INCH HAIL
5/3/95     COMANCHE

1944 PM    IN TIPTON                OK     .88 INCH HAIL
5/3/95     TILLMAN

1951-2000PM IN LAWTON(NRS REPTS)    OK     1 INCH TO 11/2
5/3/95     COMANCHE                        COVERING GROUND TO 1 INCH
                                           AT SOME LOCATIONS.

1950 PM    21/2 E COOPERTON         OK     13/4 INCH HAIL
5/3/95     KIOWA

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Local storm report, May 3, 8:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 9:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 10:13 PM CDT, 15 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
May 3, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	50 min
May 3, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	51 min
May 3, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	43 min
May 3, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	26 min
May 3, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	54 min
May 3, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	49 min
May 3, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	30 min
May 3, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson	57 min
May 3, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	58 min
May 3, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995 Every 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.