Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 14, 2003, 11:20 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2003, 11:20 PM CST (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2003, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie 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), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| Feb 14, 11:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 51 min |
| Feb 15, 12:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 57 min |
| Feb 15, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Feb 15, 12:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 17 min |
| Feb 15, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 67 min |
| Feb 15, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 51 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 6:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Little River | 2 hr |
| Feb 14, 7:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Little River | 113 min |
| Feb 14, 11:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 15, 12:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 119 min |
| Feb 15, 3:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 60 min |
| Feb 14, 8:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 13 more | 2 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.