Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 124
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 5, 2005, 2:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2005, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 66 min |
| Apr 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 70 min |
| Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 69 min |
| Apr 5, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 89 min |
| Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 91 min |
| Apr 5, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 92 min |
| Apr 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 88 min |
| Apr 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 104 min |
| Apr 5, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 62 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 95 min |
| Apr 5, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 11:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 33 more | 118 min |
| Apr 5, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery | 92 min |
| Apr 5, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cowley, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware and 13 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.