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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Norman, OK

June 4, 1996Garfield County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT for Garfield County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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 4, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garfield County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	Garber, OK
Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Garber, 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, 2.4 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: 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

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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 4, 8:43 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:43 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:55 PM CDT, 3 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.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 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 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, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	50 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 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.