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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Norman, OK

May 10, 1996Woods County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 5:09 AM CDT for Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1996, 5:09 AM CDT (10:09 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Woods County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 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-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: 1389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 10, 4:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 4:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 3:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	45 min
May 9, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	45 min
May 9, 9:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis	32 min
May 9, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	30 min
May 9, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	40 min
May 9, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	45 min
May 9, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	45 min
May 10, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	26 min
May 10, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	48 min
May 10, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	45 min
May 10, 1:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woods	35 min
May 10, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	48 min
May 10, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	35 min
May 10, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	43 min
May 10, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	37 min
May 10, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	46 min
May 10, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	59 min
May 10, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	59 min
May 10, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Major	45 min
May 10, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	45 min
May 10, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kay, Noble	46 min
May 10, 5:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Noble	45 min
May 10, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	44 min
May 10, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.