Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 385, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 4:28 PM CDT for Canadian County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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 6, 1996, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Canadian County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Concho, 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 6, 2:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 255 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996 OUTFLO BNDRY CURRENTLY LOOSING STEAM AS IT MOVS ACRS CNTRL OK. AMS S OF BNDRY IS RECOVERING FM MORNG CNVCTN AND EXPCT THIS BNDRY TO BCM FAIRLY ACTV LTR THIS AFTN. TRW CURRENTLY GOING UP NR OKC. LN OF TSTMS THAT WAS ALG SRN KS BRDR NOW ALSO COMING SWD INTO NRN ZNS. EXPCT ALL OF THIS ACTVTY TO PROPAGATE SWD ACRS FA TNGT. MDLS ALL AGREE ON BRINGING IN DRY AIR SWD LT TNGT AND FRI. TAIL-END VORT MAX FCST TO DIVE INTO AR BY 48HRS...BUT Q-VECTOR FIELDS INDCT THAT MOST LIFT SHUD BE E OF FA. MDLS DO...HWVR...WRAP A FAIR AMT OF LO LVL MSTR BACK INTO THE ERN HALF OF OK ON SAT AND THIS LUKS RSNBL. WL GO WITH MOSUNNY ON FRI AND PTCLDY ON SAT. WL KEEP POPS (AFT 1ST PD) BLO 20 FOR NOW...BUT SERN ZNS WL HV TO BE WATCHED IF CDFNT DOES NOT PUSH FAR ENUF SE TO WIPE THE DEEP MSTR AWAY. ..04.. GAG 55/81/52/84 3100 PNC 59/78/54/80 4111 HBR 60/84/59/86. 6100 SPS 62/80/59/82 6111 OKC 62/80/59/82 +111 DUA 65/81/64/84 8111 .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 6, 10:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
OKZ004>053-TXZ083>090-061830- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 1230 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM STILLWATER TO ELK CITY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY THAT PORTION OF OKLAHOMA NORTH OF THE MODERATE RISK AREA. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST KANSAS...THROUGH EXTREME NORTHERN OKLAHOMA...INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE. THIS COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE IN LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS COLD FRONT. ONCE THE FRONT PASSES A LOCATION...THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS SIGNIFICANTLY DIMINISHED. AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...THERE ARE NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES CREATED BY THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THERE IS ALSO AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE HEADED FOR OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE COLD FRONT...OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE FORCES TO PRODUCE ENOUGH LIFT TO GET THUNDERSTORMS STARTED. ONE NEGATIVE FACTOR FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA IS A CAPPING INVERSION. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...WITH INCREASING WIND SHEAR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE SOUTH OFd THE COLD FRONT. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD LISTEN FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 11
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, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 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, 4:50 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 |
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.