Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 600, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT for Love County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 11, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Love County, OK
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 Aug 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 3 30 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 1996 SHORT TERM DISC...TNTE THRU TUE: ETA MUCH STGR ON SW APCNHG FM KS. FEATURE DEPICTED ON SATL LOOP MATCHED WELL WITH ETA AND THUS FOLLOWED ETA GUIDANCE MOST CLOSELY. SW PROGD BY ETA TO BE IN S KS BY 00Z THEN MOVE TO SE OF MLC BY 12Z MON. FEATURE WILL BEGIN TO PRODUCE MORE WDSPRD ACTIVITY AS IT MOVES OVR MUCH MORE UNSTABLE AMS LATE THIS PM. ACTIVITY SHLD MOVE SWD INTO N CNTL...THEN CNTL...ZONES. OTHER SVR ACTIVITY DVLPNG S OF SFC BNDRIES IN HI CAPE AIR WITH LOTS OF INSOLATION. LARGE ISOLD RIGHT MOVG SVR STORM IN WRN OK ATTM IS GENERATING GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTS. UPR SYS MOVES THRU ALL BUT SRN PTN OF FA FOR MON WITH RHS DROPPING ALL BUT SE. WL KP POPS IN FOR AM ACRS N CNTL/CNTL THEN THRU AFTN FOR SE. FOR MON NITE/TUES FNTL BNDRY MOVES N ACRS FA INTO SRN KS BY 48 HRS. BEST MOISTURE/LEAST CAPPING IN CNTL/ SERN ZNES SO KPT POPS IN THRU TUES. LONG TERM DISC...WED THRU FRI...REMNANTS OF FNT OVR AREA AND NW FLO ALFT WL SET STAGE FOR CONTINUED CHCS OF RW/TRW. ESP OVRNIGHTS ON EDGE OF CAP. HIEST CHCS ON FRI...AS LO LVL RTN MOISTURE FLO INCREASES...LOWEST CHCS ON THU AS SWRN US RIDGE PUSHES OUT ACRS SRN PLNS AND CAPPING STGST. THRU EXTD PD HIEST POPS WILL BE NRN AND ERN ZONES. FCSTID = 7 FIRST GUESS NUMBERS...SUBJECT TO CHANGE OKC 65 85 67 90 / 50 30 20 30 HBR 67 91 68 94 / 40 10 10 20 SPS 67 91 68 94 / 40 10 10 20 GAG 63 89 65 92 / 30 10 10 10 PNC 64 85 65 89 / 50 20 10 10 DUA 66 87 67 87 / 40 40 30 30 .OKC... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. PURPURA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
OKZ004>006-009-010-112000- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 100 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS... MAINLY TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HOLDENVILLE TO OKLAHOMA CITY TO THE TEXAS STATE LINE WEST OF ERICK. CLOUDS WERE BREAKING UP AT MIDDAY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WIDESPREAD SUNSHINE WAS ALREADY OCCURRING ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS. SATELLITE PHOTOS AT EARLY AFTERNOON SHOWED A DISTURBANCE ALOFT MOVING SOUTHWARD THROUGH EASTERN KANSAS. ALTHOUGH SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR HAS SPREAD INTO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA...ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS. DAYTIME HEATING AT THE SURFACE ALONG WITH SOME COOLING ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS LIKELY THAT SCAATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP... MOST PROBABLY IN THE HIGHER DEWPOINT AIR OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. WIND OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD...A FEW OF THEM MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL THE MAIN THREAT. SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS MAY POSSIBLY REQUIRE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DGN
Local storm report, Aug 11, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 325 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 0255 PM ALEDO OK 1.75 INCH HAIL 08/11/96 DEWEY 0300 PM 10 NW CUSTER CITY OK 1.75 INCH HAIL 08/11/96 CUSTER MCCLURE
Local storm report, Aug 11, 4:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
410 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM 4 NW ARAPAHO OK 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/11/96 CUSTER
0340 PM FOSS OK 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/11/96 WASHITA
0348 PM 1 S FOSS OK 60 MPH WINDS
08/11/96 WASHITA
0355 PM BRURNS FLAT OK 83 MPH WIND GUST
08/11/96 WASHITA RECORDED BY CLINTON
ASOS.
MCCLURELocal storm report, Aug 11, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
500 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 12 NW LONE WOLF OK WIND DAMAGE
08/11/96 KIOWA 6 TO 12 INCH DIAMETER
TREE LIMBS DOWN.
80 MPH WINDS.
0.88 INCH HAIL.
0431 PM 2 W DILL CITY OK WIND DAMAGE
08/11/96 WASHITA TREES DOWN.
0454 PM 1 N GRANITE OK 75 MPH WINDS
08/11/96 GREER
0454 PM ALTUS LAKE OK 1 INCH HAIL
08/11/96 GREER
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MCCLURELocal storm report, Aug 11, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK 545 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 0520 PM 6 SE RUSH SPRINGS OK 1 INCH HAIL 08/11/96 GRADY 0528 PM MARLOW OK 1.75 INCH HAIL 08/11/96 STEPHENS MCCLURE
Local storm report, Aug 11, 6:45 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Marshall | 31 min |
| Aug 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 45 min |
| Aug 11, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 39 min |
| Aug 11, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 33 min |
| Aug 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 26 min |
| Aug 11, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor | 35 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.