Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 585
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2004, 12:35 AM CDT for 14 counties in Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2004, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 4:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole | 50 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 2121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 87 min |
| Jul 7, 1:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Harmon, Jackson and 7 more | 95 min |
| Jul 7, 3:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro and 31 more | 88 min |
| Jul 6, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 34 more | 119 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.