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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 652, NWS Norman, OK

July 20, 1995Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT for Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wichita County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1899 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1899 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens51 min
Jul 20, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche43 min
Jul 20, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc40 min
Jul 21, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine45 min
Jul 21, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine49 min
Jul 21, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine51 min
Jul 21, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian45 min
Jul 21, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor50 min
Jul 20, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay, Wichita45 min
Jul 20, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Wilbarger36 min
Jul 20, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWichita46 min
Jul 20, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay39 min
Jul 21, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWichita45 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.