Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 538
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT for 16 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2004, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Love County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 64 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 3602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 88 min |
| Jul 2, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 84 min |
| Jul 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more | 94 min |
| Jul 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Texas | 56 min |
| Jul 2, 10:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 11 more | 96 min |
| Jul 3, 1:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 35 more | 89 min |
| Jul 3, 3:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, McIntosh, Muskogee and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Tillman | 118 min |
| Jul 3, 6:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, Love, Marshall | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 22 more | 4 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.