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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 33
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 22, 2005, 9:45 PM CST for 21 counties in Oklahoma; Hardeman County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2005, 9:45 PM CST (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2005, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Atoka County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Hardeman County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 11:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 50 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 9:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 6 more | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 10:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 25 more | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 20 more | 60 min |
| Feb 23, 7:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Hardin, Harris and 18 more | 115 min |
| Feb 23, 10:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton and 7 more | 115 min |
| Feb 23, 1:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Concho, Crockett, Irion, Kimble, Lampasas and 10 more | 116 min |
| Feb 23, 2:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Jackson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Concho, Coryell 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.