Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 305, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 10:43 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1995, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pushmataha County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1765 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.6
- Supercell composite
- -2.9
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 23, 3:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA 336 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 CDFNT SHOWS UP WELL ON THE MESONET FROM GRANT COUNTY TO EAST OF ALTUS. FRONT HAS CONTINUED TO PRESS SLOLY SWD TODAY AND IS ALRDY SOUTH OF 12 TO 24 HOUR MODEL FCSTS. THINK FNT WILL STALL OR MOVE VERY SLOWLY SWD THIS EVENING WITH STG WAVE RMNG TO THE WEST. STG/SVR STMS HAVE DVLPD THIS AFTN IN VCNTY OF THE BNDRY AND EXPECT THIS TO CONT TONIGHT AS S/W LIFTS NEWD. HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ESP ALG AND NORTH OF BNDRY AS STG H8 JET OF 40 TO 50 KTS TONIGHT OVRRNS SHALLOW CDFNT. WITH UNCERTAINITY AS TO WHERE FNT WILL END UP WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING FFA ATTM BUT WL MENTION HVY RAIN IN ZONES. FNTL BNDRY EXPECTED TO SURGE SWD AGAIN LATER TONIGHT AND WED AS WAVE MOVS BY SHIFTING SVR/HVY RAIN THRT INTO SERN ZONES. WILL MAINTAIN POPS THRU PD AS SHALLOW COOL AMS REMAINS OVR THE AREA WITH SWLY UPR FLO CONTG TO EJECT S/WS OVR THE AREA. WITH NGM WAY OFF ON FNTL POSN FWC TMPS ARE SUSPECT AND WILL ADJUST DOWNWARD SIGNIFICANTLY. FCSTID=02 HBR 55 66 53 66 / 100 70 40 40 OKC 57 69 55 69 / 100 80 40 30 SPS 62 73 58 72 / 100 80 40 40 GAG 48 58 45 60 / 80 60 30 40 PNC 55 63 50 63 / 90 70 30 30 DUA 68 78 59 71 / 30 80 80 50 .OKC...NONE. .TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
530 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
526 PM FAXON OK .88 INCH HAIL 7 MILES EAST OF
05/23/95 COMANCHE FAXON.
MCCAMMONLocal storm report, May 23, 7:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
740 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
600 PM 3 SOUTH SEYMOUR OK 1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED
05/23/95 BAYLOR
643 PM CHILLICOTHE TX POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN
05/23/95 HARDEMAN
645 PM LAKE KICKAPOO TX .88 INCH HAIL AND 50-60 MPH
05/23/95 ARCHER WINDS
700 PM ARCHER CITY TX UP TO 1 INCH HAIL
05/23/95 ARCHER
705 PM WICHITA FALLS TX 68 MPH WINDS REPORTED BY
05/23/95 WICHITA WICHITA FALLS TV STATION
715 PM SCOTLAND TX 60-70 MPH WIND AND .88 INCH
05/23/95 ARCHER HAIL
730 PM JOLLY TX ESTIMATED 60 MPH WIND
05/23/95 CLAYLocal storm report, May 23, 9:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 58 min |
| May 23, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 65 min |
| May 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love, Stephens | 43 min |
| May 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Garvin, Grady | 3 hr |
| May 23, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Murray | 59 min |
| May 23, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Marshall | 56 min |
| May 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 50 min |
| May 23, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 57 min |
| May 24, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Stephens | 40 min |
| May 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Marshall | 49 min |
| May 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Murray | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Choctaw | 43 min |
| May 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 65 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.