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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 608, NWS Norman, OK

August 17, 1996Hardeman County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1996, 7:31 PM CDT for Hardeman County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 17, 1996, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Hardeman County, TX

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 17, 3:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OKLAHOMA CITY OK
310 PM CDT SAT AUG 17 1996

UPR TRF FROM NE TO SW ACRS THE FA THIS AFTN CONTS TO MOVE SLOWLY EWD
WITH SHWRS/TSTMS CONTG OVER SERN ZONES THIS AFTN.  WK SFC FNT PUSHED
INTO WRN SECS OF THE FA THIS MRNG AND SHOWS UP ON MESONET DATA FROM ARND
PNC TO KINGFISHER TO ERICK. WITH MORE SUNSHINE IN THE W THIS AFTN AMS
HAS DESTABILIZED AND EXPECT THIS BNDRY TO BE FOCUS FOR REDVLPMNT THIS
AFTN AND EVE. 88D SHOWS SOME ACTIVITY ALRDY DVLPG ALG THIS BNDRY THIS
AFTN AND EXPECT THIS TO CONT. SERN OK. BEYOND TONIGHT AVN/NGM SIM WITH
MOVMT OF UPR TROF GRDLY SHIFTING IT EWD THROUGH THE PD. WL CONT WITH
HIEST POPS IN THE SE SUNDAY AHD OF THE UPR TROF. AVN/NGM SHOW WK S/W
MOVING EWD THROUGH ROCKIES SUNDAY NIGHT/MON MRNG. WITH LO LVL
CONVERGENCE ALG THE LEE TROF CUD SEE SOME TSTM DVLPMNT TO OUR NW SUNDAY
AFTN AND EVE WHICH CUD REACH NWRN ZONES. THUS WILL INCLUDE POPS FOR THE
NW SUN NIGHT AND MONDAY.

FCSTID = 02
OKC   68  89  71  90 /  40  20  10  10
HBR   67  90  72  91 /  40  20  10  10
SPS   71  93  72  94 /  40  20  10  10
GAG   63  90  70  91 /  20  10  20  20
PNC   70  88  73  90 /  20  20  10  10
DUA   72  87  73  90 /  40  30  30  20

.OKC...
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:31 PM CDT, 3 hours before

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