Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 398
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2005, 8:35 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Missouri; 31 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2005, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg | 75 min |
| Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Love, Murray | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 63 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 3947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 050132
SEL8
SPC WW 050132
ARZ000-KSZ000-MOZ000-OKZ000-050400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 398
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
835 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
SOUTHEAST KANSAS
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
EASTERN OKLAHOMA
EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY EVENING FROM 835 PM UNTIL 1100 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2.5 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 65 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHANUTE KANSAS
TO 55 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF ARDMORE OKLAHOMA. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
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 391...WW 392...WW 393...WW
394...WW 395...WW 396...WW 397...
DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO SPREAD/DEVELOP EWD ACROSS
PARTS OF ERN OK/SE KS AS LARGE SCALE ASCENT/LLJ INCREASE FROM W TO E
ACROSS REGION.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24025.
...CORFIDI
380,0934 335,0950 335,0971 380,0960SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 96 min |
| Jun 4, 9:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 9 more | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 10:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 40 more | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln and 7 more | 90 min |
| Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede and 9 more | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Christian, Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Stone, Taney and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike and 3 more | 95 min |
| Jun 4, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Love | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Stephens | 93 min |
| Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 10 more | 7 hr |
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.