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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 378

June 2, 200431 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2004, 12:15 PM CDT for 31 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2004, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 31 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	63 min
Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	49 min
Jun 2, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	32 min
Jun 2, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	87 min
Jun 2, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	83 min
Jun 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	47 min
Jun 2, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne	51 min
Jun 2, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	65 min
Jun 2, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	27 min
Jun 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	49 min
Jun 2, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa	53 min
Jun 2, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	49 min
Jun 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	45 min
Jun 2, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	72 min
Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	46 min
Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	76 min
Jun 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	48 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	46 min
Jun 2, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	53 min
Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	51 min
Jun 2, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	46 min
Jun 2, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	26 min
Jun 2, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	69 min
Jun 2, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	38 min
Jun 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, McIntosh, Muskogee	57 min
Jun 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	33 min
Jun 2, 3:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 2, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	29 min
Jun 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	65 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	32 min
Jun 2, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	27 min
Jun 2, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha and 1 more	82 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Grant, Harper, Woods	5 hr
Jun 2, 11:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Dewey and 27 more	85 min
Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair	5 hr
Jun 2, 1:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek and 21 more	115 min
Jun 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 23 more	4 hr
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Greer, Harper and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Johnston, LeFlore and 4 more	56 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.