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Tornado Watch 381
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 2005, 11:35 PM CDT for Harmon County, Oklahoma; 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2005, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Harmon County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 65 min |
| Jun 3, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 27 min |
| Jun 3, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 27 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 030437
SEL1
SPC WW 030437
TXZ000-031200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 381
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1135 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
WEST TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING FROM 1135 PM
UNTIL 700 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 45 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF PLAINVIEW
TEXAS TO 45 MILES SOUTH OF LUBBOCK TEXAS. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 378...WW 379...WW 380...
DISCUSSION...SUPERCELLS/SUPERCELL COMPLEXES EXPECTED TO SPREAD NNE
INTO THE TX S PLAINS...WHERE BOUNDARY LAYER CONTINUES TO MOISTEN.
SMALL TEMPERATURE/DEW POINT SPREADS AND MODERATE DEGREE OF LOW LEVEL
VEERING SUGGEST POTENTIAL FOR A TORNADO OR TWO...IN ADDITION TO VERY
STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 21030.
...CORFIDI
344,0994 330,1001 330,1032 344,1030SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Payne and 1 more | 91 min |
| Jun 3, 6:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 19 more | 90 min |
| Jun 3, 7:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 41 more | 116 min |
| Jun 3, 11:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Grant, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Washington | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady, Jackson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Kay and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Grant, Kay, Mayes, Noble and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 11 more | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Midland and 6 more | 94 min |
| Jun 2, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 11:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 26 more | 91 min |
| Jun 3, 3:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Cochran, Coke and 36 more | 89 min |
| Jun 3, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crockett, Dickens and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson and 20 more | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burnet and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 22 more | 116 min |
| Jun 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 23 more | 92 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.