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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 663, NWS Norman, OK

September 26, 1996Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1996, 12:40 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 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 26, 1996, 12:40 PM CDT (17:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1996, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 26, 12:55 PM CDTHail 0.88Hugo, 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -123 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 Sep 26, 11:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 11:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper45 min
Sep 25, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Harper, Woodward41 min
Sep 25, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant60 min
Sep 25, 9:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNEllis, Harper, Woodward3 hr
Sep 25, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant28 min
Sep 25, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant30 min
Sep 25, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay46 min
Sep 25, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woods, Woodward39 min
Sep 25, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant20 min
Sep 25, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woods49 min
Sep 25, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant, Kay30 min
Sep 25, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay53 min
Sep 25, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay45 min
Sep 25, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Kingfisher43 min
Sep 25, 11:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKay4 hr
Sep 26, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods46 min
Sep 26, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble, Payne54 min
Sep 26, 1:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne34 min
Sep 26, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield36 min
Sep 26, 11:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNChoctaw, Pushmataha57 min
Sep 26, 11:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan57 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.