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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 421, NWS Norman, OK

June 12, 1996Bryan County, Marshall County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 3:48 PM CDT for Bryan County, Marshall County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min. 3 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 12, 1996, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bryan County, OK, Marshall County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Kingston, OK
Jun 12, 4:09 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Durant, OK
Jun 12, 4:19 PM CDT	Hail 1	Durant, 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 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 12, 3:06 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
305 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1996

FCST PROBLEM IS PRECIP CHCS THRU SHORT TERM PDS. LATEST SATL IMAGERY
INDICATES MCV JUST SOUTH OF OUN...AND ANOTHER SHORT WAVE PUSHING EAST
INTO CNTRL KS. A SMALL AREA OF CONVECTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH CENTER
OF THE MCV...AND ADDITIONAL RW IS DEVELOPING ACRS SOUTH CENTRAL AND
SE OK. SFC BASED CAPES HV REACHED ABV 3000 J/KG ACRS SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SE OK. ANOTHER INSTABILITY AXIS IS LOCATED ACRS EXTREME WRN
OK/ERN TX PNHDL. MAPS DATA INDICATES WK SFC BOUNDARY NEAR A RSL TO
LBB LINE. WL HV HIGHEST 1ST PD POPS ACRS THE NW AND SE PTNS OF
FA...WITH SLIGHT CHC POPS ELSEWHERE.

ONE MORE CHC FOR AFT/EVENING CONVECTION IN NWLY FLOW FOR THU
AND THU NIGHT...BEFORE UPR LVL RIDGE BUILDS FM THE SW. EXTND PDS
APPEAR WARM AND DRY.

FCSTID = 22
OKC   68  89  70  88 /  30  20  20  10
HBR   68  87  69  88 /  30  30  20  10
SPS   67  90  71  91 /  30  30  20   0
GAG   61  87  63  88 /  40  30  30  10
PNC   68  86  69  89 /  20  20  30  10
DUA   69  89  69  89 /  40  20  20  10

.OKC...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 12:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 12:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:37 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 11, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	49 min
Jun 11, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	49 min
Jun 11, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	42 min
Jun 11, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woodward	62 min
Jun 11, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	46 min
Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis	21 min
Jun 11, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	46 min
Jun 11, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis	30 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	47 min
Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	60 min
Jun 11, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harper	30 min
Jun 11, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woodward	61 min
Jun 12, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	61 min
Jun 12, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Marshall	60 min
Jun 12, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	54 min
Jun 12, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw	62 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.