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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Norman, OK

May 26, 1996Caddo County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 4:17 PM CDT for Caddo County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1996, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Caddo County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 4:40 PM CDTHail 1.5Alfalfa, OK
May 26, 4:45 PM CDTHail 1.75Binger, OK

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1555 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 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 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
1555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
9.9

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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 26, 3:33 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:33 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
330 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

WL KEEP DISC BRIEF...AS WX WL BE GETTING EVEN MORE ACTIVE SHORTLY.
CONVECTION GETTING STARTED FROM NORTH CNTRL TO SWRN ZNS. LATEST SFC
ANALYSIS REVEALS LOW PRESSURE CENTER ACRS NRN TX PNHDL...WITH DRY
LINE EXTENDING SOUTH FROM LOW TO JUST WEST OF CDS. MDLS GENERALLY
SIMILAR WITH FEATURES THRU 36 HRS. SFC BOUNDARY TO MOVE EAST THRU 00Z
TUE. VERTICAL WIND PROFILES ALONG WITH INSTABILITY INDICATES
SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT A GOOD BET THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HV
WORDED ALL ZNS WITH SEVERE TSTMS MENTIONED. HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED WITH
SOME STORMS...BUT EXPECT ACTIVITY TO MOVE EAST FAST ENOUGH TO
PRECLUDE FFA IN THE WRN ZNS.

SOME LINGERING RW/TRW IN THE EXTREME EAST ON MON. MDLS DO HV
DIFFERENCES IN FEATURES AFTER 36 HRS. WENT WITH ETA/AVN COMPROMISE
AFT 36 HRS. HV PUT SLIGHT CHC POPS IN ERN 1/2 OF FA FOR TUE AND TUE
NIGHT...AS ETA/AVN INDICATE WK S/W ACROSS CROSSING FA.

EXTENDED PDS APPEAR WARM AND DRY.

FCSTID = 22
OKC   65  85  64  88 /  60  30  10  20
HBR   60  84  64  88 /  50  10   0  10
SPS   64  88  67  92 /  60  10  10  10
GAG   55  83  54  86 /  50  10   0   0
~PNC   61  80  61  86 /  60  30  10  20
DUA   68  89  64  89 /  60  30   0  20

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

In the hours before

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Local storm report, May 26, 4:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
420 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

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

401 PM     HOBART                  OK     1 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    KIOWA

410 PM     2 ENE COWDEN            OK     0.75 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    WASHITA

JS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Harmon, Jackson36 min
May 26, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Kiowa37 min
May 26, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita37 min
May 26, 5:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Washita40 min
May 26, 5:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Harmon40 min
May 26, 6:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo40 min
May 26, 6:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer46 min
May 26, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster45 min
May 26, 8:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster44 min
May 26, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarmon51 min
May 26, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer40 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer29 min
May 26, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa, Washita47 min
May 26, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay40 min
May 26, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster40 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Kiowa47 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita47 min
May 26, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey50 min
May 26, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward50 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine37 min
May 26, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher39 min
May 26, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian63 min
May 26, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods44 min
May 26, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield46 min
May 26, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher, Logan46 min
May 26, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian, Grady47 min
May 26, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Payne46 min
May 26, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma40 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady46 min
May 26, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble43 min
May 26, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrady38 min
May 25, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNFoard, Knox27 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNFoard, Knox32 min
May 25, 11:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNFoard, Hardeman32 min
May 26, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Hardeman34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.