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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 439, NWS Norman, OK

June 15, 1996Caddo County, Grady County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 6:34 PM CDT for Caddo County, Grady 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 15, 1996, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Caddo County, OK, Grady County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 15, 2:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 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 14, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	44 min
Jun 14, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	50 min
Jun 14, 10:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	3 hr
Jun 15, 1:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Washita	3 hr
Jun 15, 1:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	3 hr
Jun 15, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	32 min
Jun 15, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian	42 min
Jun 15, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray	38 min
Jun 14, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.