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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 877

November 10, 200436 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 10, 2004, 3:15 PM CST for 36 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2004, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2004, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Atoka County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grant County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	36 min
Nov 10, 4:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	24 min
Nov 10, 4:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma	51 min
Nov 10, 5:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie	34 min
Nov 10, 5:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	33 min
Nov 10, 5:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Payne	48 min
Nov 10, 6:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee	23 min
Nov 10, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	58 min
Nov 10, 7:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	38 min
Nov 10, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	62 min
Nov 10, 9:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 1:57 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 12 more	2 hr
Nov 10, 5:27 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne, Pontotoc and 2 more	2 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.