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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Norman, OK

May 24, 1995Bryan County, Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 6:47 PM CDT for Bryan County, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1995, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 24, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
340 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

STNRY FNT XTNDG ACRS SCNTRL OK INTO NRN TX WL BE AN INITIAL FOCUS FOR
TSTM DVLPMT THIS AFTN AND EVE. MDTLY STRG THERMAL GRAD OF NR 20 DEG
EXISTS ACRS THE FNT ALNG WITH WK CNVRGNC. SCTD TSTMS DVLPG IN THE AREA
WL CONT TO INCRS THRU EVE. MDT INSTABILITIES... HIGH DEWPTS... AND MID
LVL DRYING WL SUPPORT A FEW TSTMS WITH LRG HAIL... STRNG WINDS... AND
LCLY HVY RAINS. WL ALLOW FFA TO EXPIRE THIS AFTN... HWVR... WL MONITOR
NEED FOR REISSUANCE FOR LATE TNGT SHUD MORE ORGANIZED DVLPMNT OCCUR ACRS
AREAS THAT RECD HVY RN LAST NITE. REGION HAS RECVD LTL OR NO ADDNL RAIN
HAS OCCURRED DURG THE DAY IN THESE AREAS. SHWRS AND TSTMS XPCTD TO DVLP
FARTHER BACK TO THE NW OF THE FNT LTR TNGT AS S/W BRUSHES THE AREA WHILE
LOW AND MID LVL WAA INCREASES SMWHT. ALTHO FNT MAY WAVER A LTL TNGT...
XPCT A LTL MORE NWD MVMNT ON THURS. CHC OF SHWRS AND TSTMS WL PERSIST
INTO SAT AS UPR TROF PERSIST TO THE WEST OF THE AREA WHILE
MOIST...UNSTBL AIRMASS CONT ACRS THE REGION. TEMPS TNGT AND THURS WL BE
SENSITIVE TO MEANDERINGS OF FNT/OUTFLOW BNDRIES... BUT IN GENL WL SEE
LTL CHG SEWD OF FNT... WHILE GRDLY WRMG TO THE NW.

FCSTID=32
HBR   57  72  60  79 / 50  50  50  40
OKC   57  72  61  77 / 60  50  50  40
SPS   64  78  64  81 / 60  40  40  30
GAG   52  65  56  72 / 40  50  50  50
PNC   56  70  58  76 / 40  50  50  40
DUA   66  80  66  79 / 60  50  &50  40

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...REPORT FOR 5/23/95...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
330 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

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

700-800PM     WICHITA FALLS           TX     WINDS BETWEEN 60-70 MPH
05/23/95      WICHITA                        IN WICHITA FALLS.  DAMAGE
                                             TO METAL SHEDS AND TO
                                             WOODEN FENCES WITH A 14 TO
                                             16 INCH TREE UPROOTED
                                             AT MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
                                             TREES AND POWER LINES ALSO
                                             REPORTED DOWN BY PUBLIC.

MCCAMMON

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, 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 23, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	65 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.