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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Norman, OK

March 6, 1995Comanche County, Grady County, Stephens County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 8:25 PM CST for Comanche County, Grady County, Stephens County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1995, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1995, 9:00 PM CST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Comanche County, OK, Grady County, OK, Stephens County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 102 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 7:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc48 min
Mar 6, 8:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston, Marshall40 min
Mar 6, 8:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc47 min
Mar 6, 9:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan40 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.