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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Norman, OK

May 14, 1995Tillman County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 11:25 PM CDT for Tillman County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tillman County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 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
May 14, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton42 min
May 15, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Tillman40 min
May 15, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson47 min
May 15, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens51 min
May 15, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Murray51 min
May 14, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Baylor46 min
May 14, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Wichita, Wilbarger46 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.