Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 1:14 PM CDT for Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1995, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clay County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 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
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, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 10:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 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/SPEGIn the hours before
Local storm report, May 25, 11:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1118 AM CDT THU MAY 25 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1055 AM MEGARGEL OK 0.75 INCH HAIL IN MEGARGEL 5/25/95 FROM VOLUNTEER FD SN
Local storm report, May 25, 11:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1118 AM CDT THU MAY 25 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1055 AM MEGARGEL TX 0.75 INCH HAIL IN MEGARGEL 5/25/95 ARCHER FROM VOLUNTEER FD SN
Special weather statement, May 25, 12:26 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
OKZ004>053-TXZ083>090-261200- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1230 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND OVER THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS. THE AREA IS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ERICK TO WAURIKA. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL BE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS PORTIONS OF OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. COOL AND STABLE AIR AT THE SURFACE CONTINUES ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE DEPTH OF THIS LAYER IS RELATIVELY SHALLOW...AND STRONG STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND REDEVLOP IN WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. ALTHOUGH HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN. THE FRONT THAT USHERED IN THE COOL AND STABLE AIR CONTINUES TO STRETCH ACROSS NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS FRONT IS EXPECTED TO RETREAT SLOWLY NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT ALLOWING GREATER INSTABILITY TO RETURN TO PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. THUNDERSTORMS MAY AGAIN DEVELOP TONIGHT WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING HEAVY RAIN TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT. HOWEVER SOME STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT. SPOTTER GROUPS IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD STAY INFORMED ON THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. _ SPEG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Bryan, Choctaw | 3 hr |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw | 45 min |
| May 24, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Bryan, Choctaw | 3 hr |
| May 25, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Bryan, Choctaw | 2 hr |
| May 25, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 43 min |
| May 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 67 min |
| May 25, 1:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Clay | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Archer, Wichita | 3 hr |
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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.