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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 685, NWS Norman, OK

July 23, 1995Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT for Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Woods County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 227 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 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
227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-281 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Jul 23, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
310 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995

SHORT TERM (TNGT)...
MCS FM LAST NGT DID A NMBR ON LOW LVL WND/MSTR FIELDS ACRS MUCH OF FCST
AREA. TEMP-WISE, RECOVERY HAS BEEN RPD UNDER LATE JUL SUN, BUT LL WNDS
AND MSTR FIELDS RMN POORLY ORGANIZED. UNSEASONABLY STG SHTWV APCHG AREA
FM W PROMISES AN ENCORE TNGT, BUT LOCN OF INIT DVLPMT OF SFC-BASED
CONVCTN THIS AFTN OR EVE SHUD DEPEND MSTLY ON WHERE SFC BNDRYS SET UP.
DVLPG CU NE OF AMA AND CONVCTN NR DDC ARE GOOD CANDIDATES. STILL FEEL
THAT ORGANIZED CONVCTN AND SGFNT SVR WX ARE LKLY THIS EVE CNSDRG
STRENGTH OF MID/UPR FORCING, VERT SHEAR, AND WIND FIELDS. BUT ATTM, WE
RMN UNCERTAIN OF WHERE MOST VULNERABLE AREAS WL BE. EVOLUTION OF LL
MESOSCALE FEATURES WL BE THE KEY THIS AFTN AND EVE. WL GO WITH POPS MUCH
AS THEY WERE IN PREV FCSTS, I.E. IN GOOD CHC CAT. ALTHO ORGANIZED
CONVCTN LKLY, LOCN AND TIMING ARE STILL TOO MUCH IN QSTN TO FOCUS HIER
POPS ATTM. WL MENTION SVR AND HVY RAIN POTL IN MOST AREAS. LAST-MINUTE
ADJUSTMENTS PSBL (LKLY, ACTUALLY) PENDING DVLPMTS OVR NXT HR OR SO.

LONGER TERM (MON THRU TUE)...
AFT TNGT, ALL BETS ARE OFF AS MESOSCALE DVLPMTS TNGT ARE LKLY TO RESULT
IN BIG DIFFS BTWN MDL-FCST SCENARIOS AND REAL ATMOS. GENL TREND IS TWD
WKR UPR WNDS (I.E. MORE TYPICAL FOR TIME OF YR), MORE DOMINANT SLY LL
FLOW, TROFFING ALG HI PLAINS, AND WKNG OF CNTRL PLAINS FNTL ZN. THUS,
TREND OF FCST WL BE BACK TWD CLIMATOLOGY, WITH DECRG CHCS OF ORGANIZED,
WDSPRD TSTMS. HOWVR, WNDS ALF WL RMN FAIRLY STG ACRS CNTRL PLAINS, AND
POTL WL CONT FOR MCS-TYPE DVLPMT MNLY TO OUR N WHICH CUD SEND LL BNDRYS
SWD INTO FCST AREA. WL CONT POPS IN MST AREAS THRU TUE, WITH HIER NMBRS
IN NRN ZNS AND AT NGT BASED ON CLIMATOLOGY AND BETTER FORCING UP N. MDT
TO STG INSTBY WL CONT ACRS AREA WITH FCST CAPES AOA 3000 J/KG DURG MAX
HTG, WHILE CAP IS EXPCD TO RMN WK - ESPLY ACRS N. ALTHO WND FIELDS EXPCD
TO WKN WITH TIME, SHEAR WL RMN STG ENUF TO SUPPORT SVR POTL.

EXTDD PD (WED THRU FRI)...
TREND IS TWD DVLPMT OF AN UPR HI OVR SRN RCKYS/4 CRNRS AREA WITH RDG EWD
ACRS SRN OK OR NRN TX. SFC LOW FCST TO RMN INVOF CNTRL/SRN HI PLAINS
AREA WITH FNT BCMG REESTBLSHD EWD FM LOW, ALTHO EXACT LOCN OF BOTH LOW
AND FNT WL BE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN. IMPLSS MOVING OVR TOP OF UPR HI WL
ENCOUNTER WNW TO NWLY FLOW ALF OVR CNTRL US. THUS POTL WL EXIST FOR
CONVCTN TO FIRE NR OR N OF FNTL ZONE AND ROLL SEWD INTO AREA AS MNLY
NOCTURNAL CONVCTN ON ANY OF THE 3 DAYS. AGN, BEST CHCS AL BE ACRS NRN
ZNS WITH LESSER CHCS ALG RED RVR DUE TO PROXIMITY OF UPR RDG. RDGG ALF
ALSO ARGUES FOR AN UPWD TREND IN TEMPS.

FCSTID = 24

OKC   70  93  71  95 /  50  30  20  20
HBR   69  94  70  97 /P  50  30  20  20
SPS   73  97  74  99 /  50  30  20  20
GAG   67  93  68  96 /  40  30  20  30
PNC   71  94  72  95 /  50  30  20  20
DUA   73  95  75  97 /  50  30  20  20

.OK...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED REPORT FROM THE MORNING OF 7/23/95
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
305 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995

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

1245 AM         NOBLE                 OK   TREE LIMB 10 INCHES IN
7/23/95         CLEVELAND                  DIAMETER FROM A SILVER MAPLE
                                           TREE DOWNED.  WIND ESTIMATE
                                           UNKN.

SN
Local storm report, Jul 23, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED REPORT FROM THE MORNING OF 7/23/95
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
305 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995

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

1245 AM         NOBLE                 OK   TREE LIMB 10 INCHES IN
7/23/95         CLEVELAND                  DIAMETER FROM A SILVER MAPLE
                                           TREE DOWNED.  WIND ESTIMA2TE
                                           UNKN.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward3 hr
Jul 22, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis43 min
Jul 22, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills49 min
Jul 22, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward40 min
Jul 22, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis43 min
Jul 22, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward65 min
Jul 22, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Custer58 min
Jul 22, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita58 min
Jul 22, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Kingfisher64 min
Jul 23, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady61 min
Jul 23, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Oklahoma59 min
Jul 23, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMcClain59 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.