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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Norman, OK

March 25, 1995Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 2:20 AM CST for Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1995, 2:20 AM CST (08:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1995, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Roger Mills County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Mar 24, 3:40 PM CST, 10 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 3:40 PM CST, 10 hours 40 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
Mar 25, 3:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	45 min
Mar 25, 3:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	35 min
Mar 25, 3:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	36 min
Mar 25, 3:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Roger Mills	45 min
Mar 25, 6:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	32 min
Mar 25, 7:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	47 min
Mar 25, 7:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	26 min
Mar 25, 8:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	25 min
Mar 25, 8:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	25 min
Mar 25, 9:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	27 min
Mar 25, 9:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	40 min
Mar 25, 9:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	45 min
Mar 25, 10:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	30 min
Mar 25, 10:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson	53 min
Mar 25, 10:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	32 min
Mar 25, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	29 min
Mar 25, 11:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	40 min
Mar 25, 11:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	40 min
Mar 25, 9:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	41 min
Mar 25, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hardeman	39 min
Mar 25, 10:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	48 min
Mar 25, 10:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	49 min
Mar 25, 11:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995 Every 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.