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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 441
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2005, 12:25 PM CDT for 28 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2005, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Harper County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 1:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Woodward | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Dewey | 24 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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 3224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Major, Woods | 94 min |
| Jun 9, 11:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer, Dewey and 13 more | 114 min |
| Jun 9, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Grady, Hughes, Lincoln and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Harmon | 8 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin and 12 more | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Harmon | 92 min |
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.