Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 522, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT for Beckham County, Washita County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 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 24, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Beckham County, OK, Washita County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Sayre, 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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 23, 9:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 9:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 905 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 1996 GOOD TREND IN CURRENT FCSTS...BUT WL FINE TUNE JUST A BIT FOR TIMING AND EMPHASIS ON N CNTRL AND NW PTNS. SLGT WKNG TREND IN STORM SE OF DDC PAST FEW SCANS...ACMPND BY WRMG TREND IN IR IMAGES. MIGHT MAKE WOODS COUNTY BFR DSPTG...BUT SHOULD BE RATHER WEAK. SOME OUTFLOW APRNT FM CLSTR NR DDC COULD ALSO AID DVLPMNT IN NW PTNS NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. MOST INTERESTING IS STRNGR CNVCN ON CO/KS LINE WHICH SHUD MAKE NW OK LTR TNGT WITH FVRBL NW FLOW ALOFT. .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. DM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 24, 1:03 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 105 AM CDT WED JUL 24 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1230 AM BUFFALO OK 72 MPH WIND GUST 07/24/96 HARPER AT MESONET SITE. MCCLURE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods, Woodward | 47 min |
| Jul 24, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 43 min |
| Jul 24, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 43 min |
| Jul 24, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Woodward | 55 min |
| Jul 24, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa | 63 min |
| Jul 24, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 63 min |
| Jul 24, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 47 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.