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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 351, NWS Norman, OK

June 1, 1995Canadian County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 6:46 PM CDT for Canadian County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 1995, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Canadian County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 012000
AFDOKC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
300 PM CDT THU JUN 1 1995

A FEW ISOLD TRW DVLPG THIS AFTN AS SFC HTG RELEASES INSTAB FM UNCAPPED
AMS. WL LET LAST MINUTE STLT/RADAR IMAGERY DICTATE 1ST PD POPS...BUT
ANYTHING THAT DOES DVLP WL LKLY DSPT SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET.

OTRW...WX SHUD BE QUIET AS UPR RDG MOVS OVR AREA. WITH AMS REMAINING
MOIST...ISOLD TRW ALSO PSBL ON FRI AFTN. HWVR...WITH LGT WINDS AND NO
BNDRYS EXPCT PCPN TO BE TOO ISOLD FOR MENTN. BY FRI NGT...NEXT UPR LOW
MOVES ACRS SRN ROCKIES AND UPWARD FORCING BEGINS TO BRUSH SHARPENING
DRYLN IN ERN NM. ALL MDLS SHOW RICH MOIST AXIS ACRS PNHDLS AND ANY TRW
THAT DVLPS ALG DRYLN HAS A CHANCE OF MAKE IT INTO WRN OK BEFORE DAWN ON
SAT. WL BRING POPS EWD INTO CNTRL ZNS ON SAT BUT WL KEEP THEM IN THE
CHANCE CAT UNTIL UPR SYS GETS CLOSER ON SUN.   ..04..

GAG 54/85/59/80 1123    PNC 61/86/63/82 1112    HBR 60/88/63/83 1123
SPS 61/89/65/87 1112    OKC 61/84/65/82 1112    DUA 62/86/66/88 1112

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 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
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	45 min
Jun 1, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	40 min
Jun 1, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	49 min
Jun 1, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	42 min
Jun 1, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	48 min
Jun 1, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	44 min
Jun 1, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	49 min
Jun 1, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	48 min
Jun 1, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	51 min
Jun 1, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	48 min
Jun 1, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Seminole	40 min
Jun 1, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin	39 min
Jun 1, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	46 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	45 min
Jun 1, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Pontotoc	42 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	47 min
Jun 1, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin	45 min
Jun 1, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland	44 min
Jun 1, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Murray	39 min
Jun 1, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	50 min
May 31, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay, Wichita	66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.