Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 448
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2005, 10:25 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Oklahoma; 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2005, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Harper County, KS, Meade County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Tillman | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 39 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 8 more | 93 min |
| Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kingman and 4 more | 93 min |
| Jun 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Meade | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Meade | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more | 113 min |
| Jun 10, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Washita | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 25 more | 86 min |
| Jun 10, 10:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woodward | 117 min |
| Jun 10, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 7:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 11 more | 92 min |
| Jun 10, 4:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Pecos, Terrell and 4 more | 85 min |
| Jun 10, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Ector and 23 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.