Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Norman, OK

April 12, 1996Archer County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 10:25 AM CDT for Archer County, Texas. 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
Apr 12, 1996, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1996, 11:15 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Archer County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 12, 10:45 AM CDTHail 0.75Windthorst, 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1074 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant45 min
Apr 12, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson, Love48 min
Apr 12, 12:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter45 min
Apr 12, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston46 min
Apr 12, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMurray50 min
Apr 12, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNChoctaw38 min
Apr 12, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes, Seminole45 min
Apr 12, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston, Pontotoc36 min
Apr 12, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCoal35 min
Apr 12, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter28 min
Apr 12, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes25 min
Apr 12, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher45 min
Apr 12, 10:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.