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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 646, NWS Norman, OK

September 23, 1996Archer County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1996, 9:40 PM CDT for Archer County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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: Sep 23, 1996, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Archer County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 23, 9:40 PM CDT	Hail 1	Scotland, TX

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 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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 23, 7:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 23, 9:24 PM CDT, 16 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
Sep 23, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	42 min
Sep 23, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	42 min
Sep 23, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	42 min
Sep 23, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	47 min
Sep 23, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	52 min
Sep 23, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	37 min
Sep 23, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	50 min
Sep 23, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Stephens	38 min
Sep 23, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	38 min
Sep 23, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	40 min
Sep 23, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	63 min
Sep 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	16 min
Sep 23, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	53 min
Sep 23, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.