Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 271
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2005, 5:05 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2005, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Benton County, AR, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Harper County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Craig County, OK, Custer County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Major | 48 min |
| May 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 48 min |
| May 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 45 min |
| May 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Washita | 49 min |
| May 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 46 min |
| May 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 53 min |
| May 13, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Noble, Payne | 57 min |
| May 13, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 59 min |
| May 13, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Payne | 50 min |
| May 13, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 47 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 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 13, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips | 2 hr |
| May 12, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth and 4 more | 34 min |
| May 12, 9:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley and 14 more | 85 min |
| May 13, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Harper, Montgomery | 85 min |
| May 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper and 22 more | 90 min |
| May 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Montgomery, Pike and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 7 hr |
| May 13, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Crawford, Dade, Dallas, Franklin, Gasconade and 15 more | 2 hr |
| May 13, 4:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 88 min |
| May 12, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 64 min |
| May 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 5 hr |
| May 12, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 3 more | 57 min |
| May 12, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 1:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Garfield, Grady and 5 more | 86 min |
| May 13, 4:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Stephens, Tillman | 56 min |
| May 13, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harmon, Jackson | 83 min |
| May 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more | 64 min |
| May 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 12 more | 65 min |
| May 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 20 more | 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.