Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 203
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 25, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT for 25 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 26 min |
| Apr 25, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston, Murray | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston | 17 min |
| Apr 25, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 68 min |
| Apr 25, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 74 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Creek and 19 more | 86 min |
| Apr 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain | 86 min |
| Apr 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 7 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.