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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 804, NWS Norman, OK

October 2, 1995Knox County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 8:51 AM CDT for Knox County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 1995, 8:51 AM CDT (13:51 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 1995, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Knox County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 244 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2219 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
2219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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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
Oct 2, 6:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham35 min
Oct 2, 6:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche46 min
Oct 2, 7:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes56 min
Oct 2, 7:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Harmon, Jackson62 min
Oct 2, 7:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche48 min
Oct 2, 7:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa42 min
Oct 2, 8:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes43 min
Oct 2, 8:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo44 min
Oct 2, 8:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady58 min
Oct 2, 8:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher, Logan45 min
Oct 2, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPushmataha50 min
Oct 2, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHardeman50 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.