Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2002
Tornado Watch 328
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT for 23 counties in Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Clay County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 44 min |
| May 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 23 min |
| May 24, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 43 min |
| May 24, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland | 39 min |
| May 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 46 min |
| May 24, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 24, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard | 58 min |
| May 24, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard | 43 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1865 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Brown, Coleman, Concho, Gillespie, Kendall and 11 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2002Tornado Watches in Texas, 2002Every tornado watch in 2002
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.