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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 752, NWS Norman, OK

August 19, 1995Hughes County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 4:11 PM CDT for Hughes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hughes County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 1995-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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 1995-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 3:42 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Choctaw37 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.