Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367

June 5, 200123 counties in Oklahoma; 14 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT for 23 counties in Oklahoma; 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2001, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey, Major, Woodward47 min
Jun 5, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper43 min
Jun 5, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey23 min
Jun 5, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Kingfisher40 min
Jun 5, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNDewey30 min
Jun 5, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield40 min
Jun 5, 2:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine26 min

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3841 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Harper and 4 more6 hr
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby and 11 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.