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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 477

June 13, 200515 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2005, 4:20 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2005, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Foard County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche34 min
Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Grady, McClain46 min
Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole49 min
Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche, Stephens45 min
Jun 13, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland51 min
Jun 13, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Grady, McClain47 min
Jun 13, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton38 min
Jun 13, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens46 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie23 min
Jun 13, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton49 min
Jun 13, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin39 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Stephens45 min
Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton, Jefferson47 min
Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Murray45 min
Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter36 min
Jun 13, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWichita40 min
Jun 13, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens16 min
Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson50 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter46 min
Jun 13, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWichita47 min
Jun 13, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague63 min
Jun 13, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLove41 min
Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter36 min
Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Baylor, Clay50 min
Jun 13, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson47 min
Jun 13, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague63 min
Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Baylor, Clay61 min
Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMontague2 hr
Jun 13, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton59 min
Jun 13, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke54 min
Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung65 min
Jun 13, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack53 min
Jun 13, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton55 min
Jun 13, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson63 min
Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung53 min
Jun 13, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack55 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1393 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 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
1393 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 35 more119 min
Jun 13, 2:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 31 more116 min
Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek and 20 more8 hr
Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Cotton and 21 more2 hr
Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCallahan, Coke, Eastland, Fisher, Jones, Nolan and 4 more4 hr
Jun 12, 9:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHaskell, Jones, Shackelford28 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.