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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 194
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 12, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT for 16 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 54 min |
| May 12, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 47 min |
| May 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 12, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 50 min |
| May 12, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 34 min |
| May 12, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 32 min |
| May 12, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 28 min |
| May 12, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 49 min |
| May 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 38 min |
| May 12, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 47 min |
| May 12, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 46 min |
| May 12, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 48 min |
| May 12, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 51 min |
| May 12, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 47 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
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 116 min |
| May 11, 9:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 57 min |
| May 12, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harper | 2 hr |
| May 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Ellis, Grant, Harper, Kay, Major and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 4:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Custer, Dewey and 8 more | 94 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.