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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Norman, OK

May 23, 1995Baylor County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 23, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT for Baylor County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -429 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOKC 232247 COR
TOROKC
TXC023-232330-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING      ...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
544 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OKLAHOMA CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN NORTHERN TEXAS
     BAYLOR

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     MABELLE AND SEYMOUR

AT 544 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO ABOUT 6
MILES SOUTH OF SEYMOUR. STORM SPOTTERS ALSO INDICATE A DEVELOPING
TORNADO IN THE AREA.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

TAKE COVER NOW. THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.  OTHERWISE...SEEK
SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR
BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR CULVERT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND
NORTHERN TEXAS UNTIL 900PM CDT AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN TEXAS UNTIL 1000PM CDT AND A
TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND
fNORTHERN TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.


LAT...LON 3345  9902 3340  9938 3362  9939 3372  9897

CS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 23, 3:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
336 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

CDFNT SHOWS UP WELL ON THE MESONET FROM GRANT COUNTY TO EAST OF ALTUS.
FRONT HAS CONTINUED TO PRESS SLOLY SWD TODAY AND IS ALRDY SOUTH OF
12 TO 24 HOUR MODEL FCSTS. THINK FNT WILL STALL OR MOVE VERY SLOWLY SWD
THIS EVENING WITH STG WAVE RMNG TO THE WEST. STG/SVR STMS HAVE DVLPD
THIS AFTN IN VCNTY OF THE BNDRY AND EXPECT THIS TO CONT TONIGHT AS S/W
LIFTS NEWD. HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ESP ALG AND NORTH OF BNDRY AS STG H8 JET
OF 40 TO 50 KTS TONIGHT OVRRNS SHALLOW CDFNT. WITH UNCERTAINITY
AS TO WHERE FNT WILL END UP WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING FFA ATTM BUT WL
MENTION HVY RAIN IN ZONES. FNTL BNDRY EXPECTED TO SURGE SWD AGAIN LATER
TONIGHT AND WED AS WAVE MOVS BY SHIFTING SVR/HVY RAIN THRT INTO SERN
ZONES. WILL MAINTAIN POPS THRU PD AS SHALLOW COOL AMS REMAINS OVR THE
AREA WITH SWLY UPR FLO CONTG TO EJECT S/WS OVR THE AREA. WITH NGM WAY
OFF ON FNTL POSN FWC TMPS ARE SUSPECT AND WILL ADJUST DOWNWARD
SIGNIFICANTLY.

FCSTID=02
HBR   55  66  53  66 / 100 70  40  40
OKC   57  69  55  69 / 100 80  40  30
SPS   62  73  58  72 / 100 80  40  40
GAG   48  58  45  60 / 80  60  30  40
PNC   55  63  50  63 / 90  70  30  30
DUA   68  78  59  71 / 30  80  80  50

.OKC...NONE.
.TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 2:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
300 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
          ....CROUNTY LOCATION....

255 PM    CROWELL                 TX     1.00 INCH HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH
05/23/95  FOARD                          6 MILES WEST OF CROWELL.

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, May 23, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
315 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

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

240 PM    CROWELL                 TX     2.75 INCH HAIL 12 MILES
05/23/95  FOARD                          SOUTHWEST OF CROWELL.

300 PM   MOUNTAIN PARK            OK     .88 INCH HAIL 1 SOUTH OF
05/23/95 KIOWA              x             OF MOUTAIN PARK.

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, May 23, 3:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
335 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

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

312 PM    BENJAMIN                 TX     1.75 INCH HAIL 15 MILES
05/23/95  KNOX                            NORTH OF BENJAMIN.

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, May 23, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
400 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

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

330 PM    CROWELL                   TX     2.50 INCH HAIL 10 MILES
05/23/95  FOARD                            SOUTH OF CROWELL.

340 PM    LOCKETT                   TX     .88 INCH HAIL 7 MILES
05/23/95  WILBARGER                        SOUTHWEST OF LOCKETT.

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, May 23, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
430 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

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

415 PM    DAVIDSON                 OK   60 MPH WIND GUST IN DAVIDSON.
05/23/95  TILLMAN

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, May 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
530 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995

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

526 PM    FAXON                    OK   .88 INCH HAIL 7 MILES EAST OF
05/23/95  COMANCHE                      FAXON.

MCCAMMON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	57 min
May 23, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Foard	48 min
May 23, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	47 min
May 23, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Wilbarger	62 min
May 23, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	66 min
May 23, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	60 min
May 23, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	61 min
May 23, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	44 min
May 23, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	37 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.