Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 592
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT for 34 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 77 min |
| Jun 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Haskell | 3 hr |
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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 2726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Nowata, Osage and 2 more | 114 min |
| Jun 25, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 57 more | 83 min |
| Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Crosby, Donley and 15 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.