Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 457
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT for 27 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Atoka County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Tillman | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 29 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 2633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ottawa | 88 min |
| Jun 13, 1:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Kay, Mayes, Nowata, Osage and 5 more | 91 min |
| Jun 12, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 11 more | 96 min |
| Jun 13, 1:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Fisher, Nolan, Schleicher, Tom Green | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004
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.