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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 463, NWS Norman, OK

June 5, 1995Carter County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT for Carter County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carter County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 261 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.3

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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 5, 4:13 AM CDT, 8 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:13 AM CDT, 8 hours 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:30 AM 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 4, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche51 min
Jun 4, 7:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNComanche, Cotton3 hr
Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, Stephens61 min
Jun 4, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNGrady, Stephens3 hr
Jun 4, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman55 min
Jun 4, 8:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNTillman3 hr
Jun 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton40 min
Jun 4, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin44 min
Jun 4, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMurray39 min
Jun 4, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc55 min
Jun 4, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNSeminole57 min
Jun 4, 10:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNMurray2 hr
Jun 5, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Pushmataha51 min
Jun 5, 11:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove50 min
Jun 5, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston, Marshall51 min
Jun 5, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Coal41 min
Jun 5, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan48 min
Jun 5, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston41 min
Jun 5, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Coal61 min
Jun 5, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Choctaw59 min
Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNChoctaw, Pushmataha60 min
Jun 5, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha45 min
Jun 5, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Major48 min
Jun 5, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant48 min
Jun 5, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher40 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWilbarger55 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox40 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor46 min
Jun 5, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor45 min
Jun 5, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher44 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.