Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 537
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT for 9 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Missouri; 26 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Newton County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, Stone County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 52 min |
| Jul 2, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Newton | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 42 min |
| Jul 2, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 8:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 11:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Lawrence, Newton | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Madison | 4 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison and 3 more | 90 min |
| Jul 1, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 30 more | 59 min |
| 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, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.