Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 571
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2005, 5:10 AM CDT for 32 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2005, 5:10 AM CDT (10:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Atoka County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Johnston | 31 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craig, Nowata, Ottawa | 8 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Ottawa | 93 min |
| Jun 30, 11:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 118 min |
| Jul 1, 1:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 27 more | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 16 more | 96 min |
| Jul 1, 4:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 6 more | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 5:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 16 more | 28 min |
| Jul 1, 7:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Coal, Creek, Garvin, Haskell, Hughes and 16 more | 59 min |
| Jul 1, 9:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 2:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 90 min |
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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.