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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Norman, OK

May 31, 1995Clay County, Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 7:39 PM CDT for Clay County, Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clay County, TX, Wichita County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 40 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-388 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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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 31, 3:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 6:44 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 31, 6:45 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Oklahoma45 min
Jun 1, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc, Pottawatomie40 min
Jun 1, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Oklahoma49 min
Jun 1, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie42 min
Jun 1, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, McClain48 min
Jun 1, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc44 min
Jun 1, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole49 min
Jun 1, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, McClain48 min
Jun 1, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMcClain51 min
Jun 1, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka48 min
Jun 1, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNSeminole40 min
Jun 1, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin39 min
Jun 1, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha46 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes45 min
Jun 1, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCoal, Pontotoc42 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma47 min
Jun 1, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin45 min
Jun 1, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland44 min
Jun 1, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Murray39 min
Jun 1, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha50 min
Jun 1, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian44 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.