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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 982

December 22, 200318 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Dec 22, 2003, 3:25 PM CST for 18 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 22, 2003, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Dec 22, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 53 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Titus County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 22, 5:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	31 min
Dec 22, 5:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	42 min
Dec 22, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Pittsburg	40 min
Dec 22, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	42 min
Dec 22, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	41 min
Dec 22, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	46 min
Dec 22, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	47 min
Dec 22, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	35 min
Dec 22, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	26 min
Dec 22, 7:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	39 min
Dec 22, 7:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	51 min
Dec 22, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	26 min
Dec 22, 7:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sebastian	31 min
Dec 22, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	49 min
Dec 22, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	18 min
Dec 22, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	31 min
Dec 22, 8:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	43 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 351 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 22, 2:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003 Every 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.