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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Norman, OK

May 26, 1996Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 5:14 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Garfield County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 5:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Drummond, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 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

Local storm report, May 26, 3:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 4:17 PM CDT, 57 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

Local storm report, May 26, 4:20 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
422 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

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

420 PM     MOUNTAIN VIEW           OK     1.75 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    KIOWA

JS

Local storm report, May 26, 4:49 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
450 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

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

415 PM     5 E VICI                OK     0.75 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    DEWEY

415 PM     WOODWARD                OK     0.75 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    WOODWARD

438 PM     5 E WATONGA             OK     1.75 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    BLAINE

440 PM     5 N ALFALFA             OK     1.50 INCH HAIL
5/26/96    CADDO

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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 26, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	36 min
May 26, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Kiowa	37 min
May 26, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	37 min
May 26, 5:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	40 min
May 26, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	40 min
May 26, 6:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo	40 min
May 26, 6:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer	46 min
May 26, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	45 min
May 26, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	44 min
May 26, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	51 min
May 26, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	40 min
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	29 min
May 26, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	47 min
May 26, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	40 min
May 26, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	40 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa	47 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	47 min
May 26, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	50 min
May 26, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	50 min
May 26, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	43 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	37 min
May 26, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	39 min
May 26, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	63 min
May 26, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	44 min
May 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	46 min
May 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	47 min
May 26, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Payne	46 min
May 26, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	40 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	46 min
May 26, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble	43 min
May 26, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady	38 min
May 25, 11:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	27 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	32 min
May 25, 11:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	32 min
May 26, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	34 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.