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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 397, NWS Norman, OK

June 3, 1995Canadian County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 4:03 AM CDT for Canadian County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1995, 4:03 AM CDT (09:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1995, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Canadian County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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: 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

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 3, 4:01 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:01 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
345 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 1995

ACTV CONVECTIVE WX PTRN WL CHG LTL NEXT CUPL OF DAYS. DRYLN WL RMN OVR W
TX THRU PD AS UPR TROF OVR UT SHFTS EWD THRU SUN. MDT FLOW OF GULF AIR
AT LOW LEVELS AND COOLING WTH APPCHG UPR TROF WL SUPPORT CONTD HI CAPES
THRUOT RGN. COOLING OVR LWR PTN OF TROPOSPHERE MAY BE OVRDONE THOUGH.
EXAMININATION OF H7 TEMP PROGS AT 03/00 HR AND 02/24 HR SHOW MDLS WERE
TOO COOL AT THIS LVL. LACK OF OBSVD CONVECTION OVR SWRN TX AND SERN NM
INDICATES SOM CAPPING PRESENT. WL BACK OFF POPS SOMWHAT ACRS SRN PTNS OF
AREA FOR THIS REASON.

APPCHG TROF WL ALSO RESULT IN INCRG WND FLDS AND IMPVD SHR/SR HELICITY
VALUES THUS SOM SUPERCELL STMS PSBL. PREV HVY RNS ACRS PORTIONS OF AREA
COMBINED WTH HI PW VALUES WL PRESENT POTL FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING
AS WELL.

DRYLN OVR WEST TX WL PROVIDE ONE FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION...WTH
THESE STMS MOVING INTO FA LATE AFTNS AND EVNGS. SECOND MECHANISM LIKELY
WL BE RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BNDRYS...WHEREVER THEY MAY BE...AT TIME OF
CONVECTIVE TEMP. UNCERTAINTY IN LATER FOCUS MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO BE TOO
SPECIFIC ABOUT POPS AND HVY RAFL. BEST CHC OF ORGANIZED SVR WUD APPEAR
TO BE WEST WHR SHR AND INSTBY WL MAXIMIZE LATE AFTN/EVNG.  ..16..

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
0053 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 1995

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

1645 PM        2E CHANDLER            OK       1.00 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/2/95          LINCOLN                        AND 40-45 MPH WINDS

2346 PM          IN SAYRE             OK       1.00 INCH DIA HA@IL
6/2/95           BECKHAM                       BY P.D.

CW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	2 hr
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Choctaw, Pushmataha	46 min
Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	38 min
Jun 2, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	40 min
Jun 2, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	45 min
Jun 3, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	45 min
Jun 3, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	52 min
Jun 3, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	48 min
Jun 3, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	48 min
Jun 3, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	60 min
Jun 3, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer	66 min
Jun 3, 2:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	48 min
Jun 3, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	63 min
Jun 3, 3:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Washita	118 min
Jun 3, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Washita	60 min
Jun 3, 6:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	50 min
Jun 3, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	45 min
Jun 3, 9:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	43 min
Jun 3, 9:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham	3 hr
Jun 3, 11:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	3 hr
Jun 3, 1:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham	3 hr
Jun 3, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	35 min
Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	40 min
Jun 3, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harmon	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.