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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 491

June 16, 200560 counties in Oklahoma; Hardeman County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 2005, 9:30 PM CDT for 60 counties in Oklahoma; Hardeman County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2005, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hardeman County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield50 min
Jun 16, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Roger Mills46 min
Jun 16, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster39 min
Jun 16, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan39 min
Jun 16, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Canadian, Dewey, Kingfisher, Major19 min
Jun 16, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 4 more32 min
Jun 16, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Payne54 min
Jun 16, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Kingfisher and 3 more63 min
Jun 16, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage41 min
Jun 16, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie67 min
Jun 16, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Payne49 min
Jun 16, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee62 min
Jun 16, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa53 min
Jun 16, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Washita64 min
Jun 16, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNSeminole31 min
Jun 17, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma29 min
Jun 17, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens64 min
Jun 17, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain, Pottawatomie, Seminole48 min
Jun 17, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee60 min
Jun 17, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa62 min
Jun 17, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes, Pontotoc59 min
Jun 17, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray and 1 more46 min
Jun 17, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc48 min
Jun 17, 2:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Marshall62 min
Jun 17, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka31 min
Jun 17, 2:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha61 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3238 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
3238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
7.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 8:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 27 more88 min
Jun 16, 10:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 54 more95 min
Jun 17, 12:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLove93 min
Jun 17, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBryan, Love6 hr
Jun 17, 3:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha96 min
Jun 17, 5:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Cherokee, Dallas, Ellis, Freestone, Gregg and 23 more59 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.