Summary of Daily Weather
Date Being Summarized:  9 June 1995

This was not a go day for VORTEX, but was an active one nonetheless.
Troughing continued in the western US, with several impulses racing
northeast from northern NM into Nebraska. Overnight and early-morning
convection developed just north of a surface outflow boundary, which
sagged south into central and southern OK during the morning. This 
activity greated another round of flooding in parts of the OKC area,
mainly in northern and western parts of the metro area.  (Norman was
spared this morning, receiving only light amounts.)  An unusal occurence
was severe convection developing along the dryline in northwest TX during the 
late night, prompting a tornado watch at 6AM.  Development was related
to a fast-moving impulse that was seen on satellite racing northeast
across CO toward NE during the morning.  While this convection weakened 
shortly after it developed, other storms went up in the morning over 
southern KS and much of OK.  BUt the boundary stalled across southern
OK just north of LTS and FSI, setting up an intersection with the dryline
which was still in the eastern TX panhandle. Additionally, a cold front 
dropped southeast across the TX panhandle during the morning. The air 
south and east of all these boundaries remained very unstable, with
surface-based and forecast capes in the 4000-5000 range.

Initial development occurred northwest of CDS near the apparent dryline-
outflow intersection around midday.  During the afternoon a long-lived
supercell tracked ENE across southwestern OK, producing at least one 
tornado near Lugert before collapsing in Caddo County.  Another large
supercell moved across parts of the Red River area west and north of 
SPS, attended by several reported tornadoes and torrential rainfall.
A third supercell developed during mid to late afternoon near Seminole OK
and moved ENE to south of TUL before weakening.

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