Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 792
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 15, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT for McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri; 43 counties in Oklahoma; Wichita County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2005, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene, Lawrence, Newton | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal | 41 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 14, 9:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Murray, Stephens and 1 more | 64 min |
| Sep 14, 11:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 35 more | 91 min |
| Sep 15, 2:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 56 more | 25 min |
| Sep 15, 6:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 27 more | 27 min |
| Sep 15, 1:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 16 more | 92 min |
| Sep 15, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Titus | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Morris, Titus | 61 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.