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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 375, NWS Norman, OK

June 6, 1996Lincoln County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 12:04 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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 6, 1996, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 3407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 5, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 9:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 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 5, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	27 min
Jun 5, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	47 min
Jun 5, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	45 min
Jun 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	63 min
Jun 5, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	44 min
Jun 5, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	49 min
Jun 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Roger Mills	37 min
Jun 5, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods	57 min
Jun 5, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Roger Mills	52 min
Jun 5, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay	51 min
Jun 5, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher, Major	51 min
Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	31 min
Jun 5, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble	30 min
Jun 5, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	41 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	47 min
Jun 5, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Noble, Payne	34 min
Jun 5, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	34 min
Jun 5, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer	44 min
Jun 6, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	41 min
Jun 6, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	51 min
Jun 6, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	48 min
Jun 6, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	26 min
Jun 6, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	46 min
Jun 6, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland	46 min
Jun 6, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	49 min
Jun 6, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	44 min
Jun 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	46 min
Jun 6, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher	50 min
Jun 6, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	47 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	40 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	40 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	50 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	55 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	55 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	35 min
Jun 6, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	46 min
Jun 6, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain	46 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin	48 min
Jun 6, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Stephens	67 min
Jun 6, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Murray, Pontotoc, Seminole	67 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.