Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 828
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 1, 2005, 4:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 2005, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2005, 7:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 54 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 511 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 637 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Labette, Montgomery | 97 min |
| Oct 1, 6:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Sumner, Wilson | 86 min |
| Sep 30, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 39 more | 97 min |
| Sep 30, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 30, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 44 more | 84 min |
| Oct 1, 1:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 29 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.