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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 613, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT for Foard County, Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Foard County, TX, Knox County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Jul 2, 2:20 PM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:20 PM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 215 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF TWO MID-LEVEL WAVES THAT SHOULD INCREASE UPWARD MOTION OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING SHOWS UP THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. THE MID-LEVEL MOISTURE AXIS, THAT RANGED FROM THE BIG BEND TO SW KS THIS MORNING, SHOULD BE MOVING OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. LATE AFTERNOON HEATING WILL LIKELY START STORMS TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA AS STRONG WESTERLY FLOW MOVES THEM INTO WESTERN ZONES THIS EVENING. AS SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THIS WAVE BRINGS A TEMPORARY END TO THE STORMS OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA LATE TONIGHT, A STRONGER WAVE WILL APPROACH THE AREA MONDAY. THIS SECOND WAVE, LOCATED OVER WA THIS AFTERNOON, WILL ARRIVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AS A 50 KNOT JET STREAK IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS. ADDITIONALLY, A DRYLINE SHOULD SET UP ACROSS THE TX PANHANDLE MONDAY MORNING PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FOCUS FOR STORM INITIATION. MID-LEVEL COOLING AND VERY WARM SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL KEEP THE LOWEST STABILITY ACROSS SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORM-SUSTAINING WIND FIELDS WILL ALSO BE STRONGER ACROSS SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN THE EXTENDED, THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO BE ADVERTISED BY THE MODELS TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL OK TUESDAY, AND TAKE ITS TIME MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE STATE. THE END OF THE WEEK LOOKS DRY AND MUCH WARMER, LIKELY HITTING 100 DEGREES IN THE SOUTHWEST ZONES BY FRIDAY. HBR 66 89 67 87 / 40 20 20 30 SPS 68 93 70 92 / 40 30 20 30 GAG 64 86 65 83 / 30 20 20 20 PNC 65 87 69 84 / 40 30 20 30 DUA 69 92 73 90 / 40 60 20 30 .OK...NONE. .TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:55 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 855 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 833 PM WEWOKA OK 0.75 INCH HAIL 7/2/95 SEMINOLE 840 PM PEARSONS OK 0.75 INCH HAIL 7/2/95 POTTAWATOMIE 845 PM WEWOKA OK 0.75 INCH CONTINUING AND 7/2/95 SEMINOLE POWER OUT IN TOWN PM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Seminole | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc, Seminole | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 11:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Pontotoc | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Coal, Pontotoc | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 56 min |
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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.