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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 8:25 PM CDT for Grant County, Kay County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 4, 1996, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Deer Creek, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 614 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 4, 3:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 410 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996 BNDRY ACRS NRN OK WITH VRY HI LI'S IN UNCAPPED AIRMASS TO ITS SOUTH. LTST RADAR FM AMA AND DDC SHOW SFC BASED CONVECTION DVLPG IN PH SO WL GO WITH HIGHEST POPS ACRS NRN ZONES THIS EVE. EVEN THO LO LVL WNDS ARE LGT...WITH NWLY UPR FLOW THE TURNING OF LOW AND MID LVL WNDS MAY BE ENOUGH TO PROMOTE DVLPMNT OF SOME SUPERCELLS. AFT TNGT RDG SHD BEGIN TO MOVE IN FM THE W WHILE SFC TROF/FNT SHIFTS EWD ACRS AREA THU. THUS WILL TAPER OFF POPS FM W TO EAST IN LATER PDS. FCSTID = 12 OKC 65 88 69 88 / 40 20 20 20 HBR 63 92 68 90 / 30 20 10 10 SPS 65 92 70 91 / 30 20 20 20" GAG 61 91 63 87 / 30 20 10 10 PNC 63 87 67 87 / 50 30 20 10 DUA 67 88 70 89 / 30 30 20 20 .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 555 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 515 PM 9 N SELMON OK TREE DAMAGE. 06/04/96 HARPER 6-8 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN. SC
Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:14 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Dewey | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Dewey | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.