Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2001
Tornado Watch 209
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas; 4 counties in Missouri; 35 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 52 min |
| May 6, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc, Seminole | 45 min |
| May 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Marshall | 49 min |
| May 6, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 40 min |
| May 6, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 67 min |
| May 6, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 51 min |
| May 6, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 46 min |
| May 6, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 65 min |
| May 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 45 min |
| May 6, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 6, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 46 min |
| May 6, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 27 more | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.