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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 312, NWS Norman, OK

May 25, 1995Archer County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 10:53 AM CDT for Archer County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 10:53 AM CDT (15:53 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Archer County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 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 25, 10:18 AM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 10:18 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
1015 AM CDT THU MAY 25 1995

UPDATED ZONES TO INCRESE POPS SW WITH CURRENT WIDESPREAD AREA OF RW/TRW
IN THE SW.  STORMS IN WRN NTX ARE PRODUCING CLOSE TO HALF INCH HAIL IN
KNOX CITY RIGHT NOW.   CI BLOWOFF OF STORMS IS ALSO OVERTAKING THE FEW
AREAS IN THE FA THAT HAD A CHANCE OF SUN THIS MORNING...SO ALSO LOWERED
TEMPS A CAT.

REST OF PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD FROM QUICK LOOK AT TVHIS MORNING'S MODELS.
     _
26/SPEG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 6:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBryan, Choctaw3 hr
May 24, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNChoctaw45 min
May 24, 10:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBryan, Choctaw3 hr
May 25, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBryan, Choctaw2 hr
May 25, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan43 min
May 25, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton45 min
May 25, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay46 min
May 25, 1:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNClay3 hr
May 25, 2:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNArcher, Wichita3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.