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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 241
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 56 min |
| May 10, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 54 min |
| May 10, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 39 min |
| May 10, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 42 min |
| May 10, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 54 min |
| May 10, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 65 min |
| May 10, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 38 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 5 more | 84 min |
| May 9, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 42 more | 115 min |
| May 10, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crane and 27 more | 2 hr |
| May 10, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Cochran, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 15 more | 6 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.