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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 593

July 3, 200543 counties in Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2005, 8:25 PM CDT for 43 counties in Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2005, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant63 min
Jul 3, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay56 min
Jul 3, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage2 hr
Jul 3, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay49 min
Jul 3, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods52 min
Jul 3, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay51 min
Jul 3, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant47 min
Jul 3, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods, Woodward63 min
Jul 3, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee49 min
Jul 3, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay48 min
Jul 3, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa59 min
Jul 3, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis42 min
Jul 3, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant, Major54 min
Jul 3, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage63 min
Jul 4, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington80 min
Jul 4, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay64 min
Jul 4, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Dewey40 min
Jul 4, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble54 min
Jul 4, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Major42 min
Jul 4, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee107 min
Jul 4, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKingfisher, Logan, Payne60 min
Jul 4, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek83 min
Jul 4, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Lincoln, Oklahoma79 min
Jul 4, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine30 min
Jul 4, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa85 min
Jul 4, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington54 min
Jul 4, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain72 min
Jul 4, 1:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Wagoner85 min
Jul 4, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie64 min
Jul 4, 2:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek58 min
Jul 4, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNSeminole62 min
Jul 4, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland28 min
Jul 4, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPottawatomie34 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2005-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4511 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 2005-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 200 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
4511 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
14.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee and 35 more115 min
Jul 3, 11:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Craig and 29 more95 min
Jul 4, 1:40 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine and 67 more35 min
Jul 4, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Craig and 26 more7 hr
Jul 4, 3:28 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 13 more32 min
Jul 4, 5:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 44 more63 min
Jul 4, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCimarron6 hr
Jul 4, 5:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 3 more84 min
Jul 4, 6:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Jefferson, Love, Marshall116 min
Jul 4, 11:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg and 12 more85 min
Jul 4, 3:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Borden, Callahan, Castro, Cochran, Coke and 28 more117 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.