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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Norman, OK

June 1, 1996Kay County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1996, 12:37 AM CDT for Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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
Jun 1, 1996, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Kay County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1608 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
11.5

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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
May 31, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Harmon64 min
May 31, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods, Woodward52 min
May 31, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Harmon49 min
May 31, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods49 min
May 31, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Custer53 min
May 31, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa, Washita53 min
May 31, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Harmon47 min
May 31, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant50 min
May 31, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian, Grady45 min
May 31, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Kingfisher45 min
May 31, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa39 min
Jun 1, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Kiowa39 min
Jun 1, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every 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.