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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Norman, OK

June 3, 1996Cotton County, Oklahoma; Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT for Cotton County, Oklahoma; Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 3, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cotton County, OK, Wichita County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 9:07 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Wichita Falls, TX
Jun 3, 9:18 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 58	Sheppard Afb, TX

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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 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 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 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 36 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 39 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 22 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 58 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
Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	45 min
Jun 3, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Tillman	44 min
Jun 3, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	43 min
Jun 3, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	39 min
Jun 3, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	44 min
Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	42 min
Jun 4, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	48 min
Jun 4, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woodward	48 min
Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woodward	36 min
Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Dewey, Woodward	32 min
Jun 3, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard	53 min
Jun 3, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	44 min
Jun 3, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Wilbarger	49 min
Jun 3, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	49 min
Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita	47 min
Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.