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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Norman, OK

May 16, 1995Woods County, Woodward County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT for Woods County, Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 3022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.1

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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 16, 3:33 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:33 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
325 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

STG CAP AND WDSPRD SUBTROPICAL CI HINDERING DVLPMNT OF SFC BASED
CONVECTION AGAIN TDA. ACCORDING TO THE MODELS THIS SHD CHG TNGT AS
UPR SYSM BEGINS TO APRCH AND H7 TEMPS START TO COOL. WD EXPECT TSTMS TO
DVLP OR MOVE INTO MUCH OF THE WRN PART OF THE FA BY MRNG...SOME PSBLY
SVR. DRY SLOT APRS LIKELY TO BE MOVING INTO SWRN ZONES BY AFTN WED. BEST
BET FOR HVYR PCPN AMTS WD LIKELY BE IN THE NCNTRL OK ZONES LATE TNGT
WED. HV GONE ABV FWC POPS FOR TNGT AND WED. GUID TEMPS APR REASONABLE.

FCSTID=12
HBR   68  82  55  74 / 50  40  10  10
OKC   69  83  56  72 / 40  50  20  10
SPS   70  84  57  78 / 40  40  20  10
GAG   64  78  52  71 / 50  50  10  10
PNC   70  80  54  70 / 40  60  30  10
DUA   71  85  59  78 / 30  40  30  10

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 9:16 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
912 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

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

0903 PM    LAVERNE                 OK     1.00 INCH HAIL 6 MILES SOUTH
05/16/95   HARPER                         OF LAVERNE ON HARPER/ELLIS
                                          COUNTY LINE FROM HARPER COUNTY
                                          SHERRIF'S OFFICE

0905 PM    LAVERNE                 OK     1.00 INCH HAIL...30-40 MPH
05/16/95   HARPER                         INFLOW WINDS 3 MILES S OF
                                          LAVERNE WALL CLOUD WITH
                                          NO INDICATION OF FUNNEL OR
                                          TORNADO AT THIS TIME.

SN

Local storm report, May 16, 9:28 PM CDT, 32 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 16, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	37 min
May 16, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harper	40 min
May 17, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	48 min
May 17, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	60 min
May 17, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	45 min
May 17, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	53 min
May 17, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	29 min
May 17, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	42 min
May 17, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	45 min
May 17, 11:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	39 min
May 17, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	40 min
May 17, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	64 min
May 17, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	47 min
May 17, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble	43 min
May 17, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	57 min
May 17, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harper	30 min
May 17, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	64 min
May 17, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	38 min
May 17, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	48 min
May 17, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant	40 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.