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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 388, NWS Norman, OK

June 2, 1995Beckham County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT for Beckham County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Beckham County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.2

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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 2, 9:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
915 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995

UPDATED ZNS TO REDUCE POPS MOST SXNS WITH EXCEPTION OF XTRM SERN ZNS.
DRYLINE WL RMN WELL WEST OF FA OVRNGT. .. ALTHO CUD SOME RMNTS OF WTX
CNVCTN DRFTG INTO WRN ZNS LATE TNGT.

32

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes 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, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Choctaw, Pushmataha46 min
Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan38 min
Jun 2, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills40 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

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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.