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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 528, NWS Norman, OK

July 24, 1996Jackson County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 3:39 AM CDT for Jackson County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 24, 1996, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1996, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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 Jul 23, 9:09 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 9:09 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 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, 2 hours 36 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.

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 1:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 3:24 AM CDT, 15 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
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, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Washita	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, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.