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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 385, NWS Norman, OK

June 2, 1995Atoka County, Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 8:14 PM CDT for Atoka County, Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1995, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Atoka County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1160 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 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
1160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.6

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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, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNPushmataha2 hr
Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan38 min
Jun 2, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills40 min
Jun 2, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham45 min
Jun 3, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills45 min
Jun 3, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita52 min
Jun 3, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods48 min
Jun 3, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Dewey48 min
Jun 3, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita60 min
Jun 3, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer66 min
Jun 3, 2:12 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham48 min
Jun 3, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita63 min
Jun 3, 3:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNWashita118 min
Jun 3, 3:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Washita60 min
Jun 3, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian57 min
Jun 3, 6:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Roger Mills50 min
Jun 3, 8:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Kingfisher, Major45 min
Jun 3, 9:17 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham43 min
Jun 3, 9:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBeckham3 hr
Jun 3, 11:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNRoger Mills3 hr
Jun 3, 1:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBeckham3 hr
Jun 3, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita35 min
Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo40 min
Jun 3, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarmon48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every 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.