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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 515, NWS Norman, OK

July 22, 1996Logan County, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 8:43 PM CDT for Logan County, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 22, 1996, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Logan County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 9:00 PM CDTThunderstorm WindEdmond, 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 Jul 22, 3:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
410 AM CDT TUE JUL 16 1996

ALL THREE MODELS PICK UP ON A SERIES OF WAVES MOVING OVER THE TOP OF
THE RIDGE AND OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA BEGINNING AROUND 30 HOURS (LATE
TONIGHT). AT THE VERY LEAST THIS WILL KEEP SOME MID/HIGH CLOUDS
AROUND AND COULD ALSO SUPPORT SOME SHOWERS.  SO WILL INTRODUCE SLIGHT
CHANCE POPS FOR NORTHWESTERN CORNER OF OK FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
TEMPERATURES ARE MORE OF A CONCERN. GROUND-MOISTURE WILL HELP KEEP
TEMPS DOWN A FEW DEGREES IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE FORECAST
PERIOD. ELSEWHERE...HOWEVER...TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO APPROACH LOW 100S
BY THE END OF THE WEEK.

FCSTID = 10
OKC   92  73  94  74 /   0  10  10   0
HBR   97  76  99  77 /   0  10  10   0
SPS   97  76  99  77 /   0  10  10   0
GAG   92  71  94  73 /   0  20  10   0
PNC   94  75  97  76 /   0  20  20   0
DUA   93  74  96  75 /   0   0   0   0

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:34 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay52 min
Jul 22, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Noble42 min
Jul 22, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay51 min
Jul 22, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan, Payne47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.