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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 328

May 24, 20056 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2005, 11:05 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2005, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas93 min
May 25, 12:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver50 min
May 25, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas56 min
May 25, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver38 min
May 25, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOchiltree52 min
May 25, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMALipscomb67 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2005-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2265 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2005-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 38 more94 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 34 more6 hr
May 24, 10:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 40 more2 hr
May 25, 12:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more93 min
May 25, 3:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward, Stevens66 min
May 24, 7:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg, Pushmataha118 min
May 25, 7:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer and 7 more84 min
May 25, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall, Tillman7 hr
May 25, 12:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Jefferson, Love, Marshall91 min
May 25, 1:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 23 more91 min
May 25, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Camp, Cherokee, Ellis, Franklin and 18 more5 hr
May 25, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bell, Borden, Bosque, Brown, Callahan and 38 more7 hr
May 25, 4:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Grimes, Houston, Leon, Madison and 8 more94 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.