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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Norman, OK

March 24, 1996Carter County, Love County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 12:50 PM CST for Carter County, Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 40 min. 5 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: Mar 24, 1996, 12:50 PM CST (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1996, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carter County, OK, Love County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Mar 24, 12:55 PM CST	Tornado F0	Lone Grove, OK
Mar 24, 1:00 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Fox, OK
Mar 24, 1:08 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Lone Grove, OK
Mar 24, 1:25 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Marietta, OK
Mar 24, 1:30 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Ardmore, 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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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 Mar 24, 10:30 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 10:30 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

FPUS3 KOKC 241616
AFDOKC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1030 AM CST SUN MAR 24 1996

THUNDERSTORM CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF APPROACHING COLD FRONT/DRYLINE
IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. FORECAST WORDING WILL BE UPDATED BUT NO
OTHER CHANGES ATTM.

.OKC...
OK...WIND ADVSY TDA ZNS4>31..33>41..44>46..50.
     CAUTION LAKES TDA ZNS 32..42..43..47>49..51>53
TX...WIND ADVSY TDA ZNS 83>90

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 24, 11:37 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1140 AM CST SUN MAR 24 1996

TIME(CDT)   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE        ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1120 AM        RUSH SPRINGS          OK       1.00 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       GRADY

1122 AM        AMBER                 OK       0.88 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       GRADY

1123 AM        MARLOW                OK       0.88 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       STEPHENS

1130 AM        2 NE MARLOW           OK       1.00 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       STEPHENS

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, Mar 24, 11:40 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1140 AM CST SUN MAR 24 1996

TIME(CDT)   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE        ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1120 AM        RUSH SPRINGS          OK       1.00 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       GRADY

1122 AM        AMBER                 OK       0.88 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       GRADY

1123 AM        MARLOW                OK       0.88 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       STEPHENS

1130 AM        2 NE MARLOW           OK       1.00 INCH HAIL.
03/24/96       STEPHENS

MCCAMMON

Local storm report, Mar 24, 12:25 PM CST, 25 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
Mar 23, 6:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer	25 min
Mar 23, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Major	42 min
Mar 23, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	29 min
Mar 23, 6:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Major	36 min
Mar 23, 6:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	39 min
Mar 23, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer	32 min
Mar 23, 7:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	32 min
Mar 23, 7:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	33 min
Mar 23, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	32 min
Mar 24, 10:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	26 min
Mar 24, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	43 min
Mar 24, 11:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	41 min
Mar 24, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	32 min
Mar 24, 11:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan	37 min
Mar 24, 11:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	46 min
Mar 24, 11:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain	45 min
Mar 24, 12:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan, Payne	40 min
Mar 24, 12:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Stephens	50 min
Mar 24, 12:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	63 min
Mar 24, 12:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	63 min
Mar 24, 12:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Murray	40 min
Mar 24, 1:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	55 min
Mar 24, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Murray	30 min
Mar 24, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Marshall	63 min
Mar 24, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	30 min
Mar 24, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes	62 min
Mar 24, 2:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	59 min
Mar 24, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble	50 min
Mar 24, 3:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Choctaw, Pushmataha	54 min
Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	29 min
Mar 24, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pushmataha	34 min
Mar 23, 6:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hardeman	35 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.