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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Norman, OK

June 3, 1996Tillman County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 8:21 PM CDT for Tillman County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 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 3, 1996, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tillman County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 229 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1386 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Jun 3, 4:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
425 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

LATE WITH DISC DUE ICWF PROBS AND SVR WX THIS AFTN. BNDRY HAS COME ALIVE
FM SE OF OKC TO NERN TX PH AND BEYOND...WL EXPECT ACTIVITY TO OUR NW
TO SLIDE SEWD IN NWLY FLO...SO HI POPS SEEM TO BE WARRANTED IN WRN AND
SRN ZONES 1ST PD. MODELS SUG BNDRY MAY CONT ACTIVE THRU TUE WITHOUT MUCH
SHIFT IN POSITION. BY TUE NGT AND WED MID AND UPR LVL UVV SHIFTING EWD
AND RDG BLDG INTO WRN OK FM WRN U.S...THUS POPS TAPERING OFF FM W TO
EAST.

OKC 63/85/67/88  6432
GAG 59/85/64/90/ 4321
HBR 65/87/67/92 4322
PNC 61/85/64/88 2433
SPS 65/89/69/93 3432

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
358 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       .2...COUNTY LOCATION....

335 PM     SW OF DEL CITY           OK      0.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/3/96     OKLAHOMA

339 PM     S SIDE OF OKLAHOMA CITY  OK      1.00 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/3/96     OKLAHOMA

BZ
Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
454 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

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

450 PM     KINGFISHER             OK      0.88 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/3/96     KINGFISHER

BZ
Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
512 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

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

340 PM     3 S DANE               OK      0.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/3/96     MAJOR

453 PM     KINGFISHER             OK      1.00 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/3/96     KINGFISHER

500 PM     3 S KINGFISHER         ROK      0.88 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
6/3/96     KINGFISHER

BZ
Local storm report, Jun 3, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady, McClain45 min
Jun 3, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa, Tillman44 min
Jun 3, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc43 min
Jun 3, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton42 min
Jun 3, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Bryan44 min
Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods42 min
Jun 4, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods, Woodward48 min
Jun 4, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woodward48 min
Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward36 min
Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey, Woodward32 min
Jun 3, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard53 min
Jun 3, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox44 min
Jun 3, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Foard, Wilbarger49 min
Jun 3, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox49 min
Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Baylor, Wichita47 min
Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay47 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.