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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 412
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2005, 11:20 PM CDT for 12 counties in Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2005, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Archer County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 26 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 3466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more | 94 min |
| Jun 5, 10:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 8 more | 94 min |
| Jun 6, 2:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Grant, Kay, Mayes, Noble and 7 more | 89 min |
| Jun 6, 12:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 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.