Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 9:03 AM CST for Cotton County, Oklahoma; Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1995, 9:03 AM CST (15:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1995, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cotton County, OK, Wichita County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Mar 25, 4:40 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 4:40 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
FPUS3 KOKC 251036 AFDOKC AFDOKC AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA 440 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 THIS ONE LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE. ALL PARAMETERS APR TO BE COMING TOGTHR FOR MAJOR SVR OUTBREAK ACRS PTNS OF FCST AREA THIS AFTN AND TNGT. MDLS HV SLOWED PROGRESS OF SHTWV PROGGED TO LIFT NEWD ACRS TX/OK FM PREV RUNS, WTH TIMING NOW MORE OPTIMAL FOR AFTN/EVE FLAREUP ALG AND AHD OF DRYLN WRN OK AND NRN TX. THERMODYNAMICS VRY FVBL WITH WM RDG PROGGED NWD ACRS WRN TX AND LL MOIST AXIS POISED FRTHR E ACRS CNTR TX AND WRN OR CNTRL OK THIS AFTN. SLY LLJ PROGGED AT 30-40KT THRU CNTRL/ERN OK WHILE WLY UPR JET WITH 100KT MAX PUNCHES EWD OUT OF SRN NM INTO WRN TX. RESULTANT SHEAR PROFILE GIVES FCST HELICITIES OF 150 UP TO OVR 400, DEPENDING ON MDL AND AMT OF STORM DEVIATION. MDLS AGN APR TO UNDERESTIMATE AMT OF LL MSTR RTN AND THEREFORE AMT OF INSTBY. ALTHO CRNT ELY COMPONENT OF BNDRY LYR FLOW IS PULLING SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR INTO CNTRL/ERN OK, EXPC LL FLOW TO VEER AND DEWPTS TO RISE FRTHR E LTR TDA AS SFC LOW BCMS ESTBLSHD INVOF SWRN KS OR OK PNHDL. RESULTANT LL MSTR FEED CPLD WITH MID-LVL COOLING BY EVE AND DRY PUNCH AT MID LVLS YIELDS EXPCD LIS OF -5 TO -9, CAPES 1500-3000 J/KG, EHI OF 2-5, BRN 20-50, AND MID LVL LAPSE RATES (H7-H5 DELTA T) OF 18-21 ACRS FCST AREA DURG AFTN. EXPC DRYLN TO PUNCH EWD INTO WRN OK AND NCNTRL TX DURG AFTN, MOST LKLY FRTHR E THAN MDL SFC PROGS, WITH CONVCTN DVLPG ALG/AHD OF IT. DRYLN EXPCD TO CONT DRIVING EWD INTO CNTRL OK EARLY TNGT AND EVENTUALLY INTO ERN OK BY SUN MRNG AS SFC LOW WINDS UP AND MOVS NEWD ACRS KS. WITH INSTBY AND SHEAR EXPCD TO BE HIGHLY FVBL, WE ANTICIPATE SUPERCELL DVLPMT THIS AFTN EVE FOLLOWED BY PSBL EVOLUTION INTO A SQLN OR MCS TNGT. NUFF SAID. WE PLAN TO GO HIGH RISK ACRS TX ZNS AND WRN HLF OK IN 630AM TSTM OTLK. WL ALSO MENTION PSBL HVY RAINERS, ESPLY SERN ZNS TNGT. OTRW WL SIMPLY GO WITH MOS TEMPS ON THIS ONE. WNDS LKLY TO KICK UP FM SW BHD DRYLN IN SWRN/WRN ZNS LTR TDA, AND ACRS MUCH OF FCST AREA - ESPLY N - ON SUN IN RESPONSE TO DVLPG KS LOW. MLB HBR 78 45 66 42 / 80 30 10 10 OKC 71 49 66 43 / 80 60 10 10 SPS 78 50 69 42 / 80 30 10 10 GAG 75 42 62 34 / 60 30 10 10 PNC 70 48 65 42 / 80 60 10 10 DUA 72 52 74 48 / 60 80 30 10 .OKC...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TDA ZNS 4>53 /ALL OF WRN/CNTRL/SERN OK/. .TX...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES ZNS 83>90.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 5:44 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
OKZ004>053-TXZ083>090-261200- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 545 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 5:44 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
OKZ004>053-TXZ083>090-261200- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 545 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 3:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 35 min |
| Mar 25, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 36 min |
| Mar 25, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Roger Mills | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 6:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 7:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer | 26 min |
| Mar 25, 8:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 8:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 9:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 10:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 30 min |
| Mar 25, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson | 53 min |
| Mar 25, 10:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 29 min |
| Mar 25, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 11:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 9:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 41 min |
| Mar 25, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 39 min |
| Mar 25, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 10:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 11:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.