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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 535
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2004, 3:55 PM CDT for 10 counties in Oklahoma; 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2004, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Beckham County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 1416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 30 more | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 10:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Tillman | 91 min |
| Jul 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes and 13 more | 90 min |
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek and 20 more | 5 hr |
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.