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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Norman, OK

May 24, 1995Comanche County, Stephens County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 1:50 AM CDT for Comanche County, Stephens County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1995, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1995, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Comanche County, OK, Stephens County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 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

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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 23, 3:53 PM CDT, 9 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:53 PM CDT, 9 hours 57 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, 9:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 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 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 23, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	47 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

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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.