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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Norman, OK

June 2, 1995Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 022029
AFDOKC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
330 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995

ACTIVE WX SHAPING UP FOR THIS NEWBIE.  MORNING TSTMS IN TX PNHDL HAVE
MAINTAINED AND ARE DRIFITING INTO FA WITH NEW ACTIVITY DVLPING IN CNTRL
OK IN RGN OF H8 AND H7 WAA AND NOSE OF LOW LVL MSTR.  LOW LVL MSTR HAS
INCRSD DRAMATICALLY...RESULTING IN MAPS LI APRCHNG -12 IN CNTRL OK.
TSTMS THAT DO DVLP WILL LKLY PRODUCE SOME SVR WX BUT SHOULD DISSIPATE
LATER THIS EVENING AS THE MID LVL FLOW WILL BE SOMEWHAT WEAKER THAN YDA.
H7 WINDS ON PROFILERS RUNNING NEAR 10KTS ATTM ALTHO H2 WINDS ARE NEAR
80KTS.  DRY LINE IN W TX AND E NM BORDER WILL PROVIDE FOCUS FOR
ADDITIONAL TSTMS WHICH COULD EASILY MOVE INTO WRN ZONES BY LATE EVENING
AND CONTINUE EWD INTO REST OF FA XCPT SE ZONES EARLY SAT MORNING.
ETA MODEL CIN APPRS FAIRLY SMALL THROUGHOUT FIRST 3 PDS.

UPR RDG WL MV EWD BY TONIGHT AND UPR TROF WL MOV CLOSE ENUF FOR MID AND
UPR LVL WINDS TO INCRS OVER AREA SAT.  TROF DOES NOT MOVE MUCH ON SUN...
ACCORDING TO THE NGM WHILE ETA MOVS TROF VERY SLOWLY EWD. REGARDLESS...
GOOD CHNC FOR SHOWERS AND TSTRMS THROUGH 4TH PD...MAINLY IN THE
EVENING...AS THE DRYLINE IS PROGD TO STAY IN TX PNHDL.  EXTENDED WILL
HAVE A CONTINUING CHNC FOR SHOWERS AND TSTMS AS ANOTHER STRONG SHORTWV
MOVES INTO SW US KEEPING LEE TROF/DRYLINE IN PLACE AND KEEPING THE COLD
FRNT BEHIND THIS SYSTEM IN KS.

TEMPS AND WINDS SHOULD NOT CHANGE TOO MUCH THROUGH FIRST 4 PDS.

#13/SNELSON

FIRST GUESS NUMBERS:
GAG 62/81/61/82 4355    PNC 66/81/65/84 4345    HBR 65/83/63/83 6455
SPS 67/86/64/87 4345    OKC 67/82/65/85 7345    DUA 62/86/66/88 4345

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
305 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995

TIME(CDT)   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE        ....COUNTY LOCATION....

258 PM          3 WEST OF EDMOND     OK       GOLFBALL HAIL
6/2/95          OKLAHOMA

258 PM          AGRA                 OK       GOLFBALL HAIL
6/2/95          LINCOLN

CHURCHILL

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
305 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995

TIME(CDT)   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE        ....COUNTY LOCATION....

258 PM  >        3 WEST OF EDMOND     OK       GOLFBALL HAIL
6/2/95          OKLAHOMA

258 PM          AGRA                 OK       GOLFBALL HAIL
6/2/95          LINCOLN

CHURCHILL

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT, 45 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, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	54 min
Jun 1, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	32 min
Jun 1, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Marshall	48 min
Jun 1, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	44 min
Jun 1, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	49 min
Jun 1, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter	27 min
Jun 1, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	35 min
Jun 1, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	27 min
Jun 2, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	35 min
Jun 2, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	60 min
Jun 2, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	39 min
Jun 2, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	67 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Oklahoma	61 min
Jun 2, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw, Pushmataha	45 min
Jun 2, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	58 min
Jun 2, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	49 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	32 min
Jun 2, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	42 min
Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	39 min
Jun 2, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland	50 min
Jun 2, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	48 min
Jun 2, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	30 min
Jun 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	50 min
Jun 2, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	48 min
Jun 2, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	54 min
Jun 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	55 min
Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	50 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	43 min
Jun 2, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	66 min
Jun 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	50 min
Jun 2, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw, Pushmataha	44 min
Jun 2, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	41 min

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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.