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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 131

April 29, 200421 counties in Oklahoma; Cooke County, Montague County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 29, 2004, 11:05 PM CDT for 21 counties in Oklahoma; Cooke County, Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2004, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Beckham County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Love County, OK, McClain County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Cooke County, TX, Montague County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton34 min
Apr 29, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa38 min
Apr 30, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa44 min
Apr 30, 2:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKiowa3 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2004-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1108 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2004-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 8:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Grant, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more64 min
Apr 29, 9:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 17 more62 min
Apr 29, 10:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more63 min
Apr 30, 2:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 17 more59 min
Apr 30, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall8 hr
Apr 30, 3:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer and 9 more2 hr
Apr 30, 4:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, LeFlore and 8 more2 hr
Apr 30, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 23 more5 hr
Apr 30, 5:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall97 min
Apr 30, 12:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Eastland, Erath, Haskell, Hood and 9 more119 min
Apr 30, 2:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Hood, Jack and 6 more2 hr
Apr 30, 4:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 12 more94 min
Apr 30, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 16 more5 hr
Apr 30, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Borden, Cochran, Dawson, Gaines, Hockley and 6 more97 min

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.