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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 604, NWS Norman, OK

August 11, 1996Archer County, Baylor County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1996, 7:55 PM CDT for Archer County, Baylor County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 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

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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 Aug 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 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

Local storm report, Aug 11, 3:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 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 47 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.

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Aug 11, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 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
                   $

MCCLURE

Local storm report, Aug 11, 5:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 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, 1 hour 10 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
Aug 11, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	34 min
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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.