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Tornado Watch 400
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2005, 11:15 PM CDT for Love County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2005, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Love County, OK, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 44 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 3271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 050411
SEL0
SPC WW 050411
TXZ000-050800-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 400
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1115 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING FROM 1115 PM
UNTIL 300 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 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 50 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 90 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF MINERAL
WELLS TEXAS TO 40 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF ABILENE TEXAS. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).
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...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 394. WATCH NUMBER 394 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER
1115 PM CDT. CONTINUE...WW 396...WW 397...WW 399...
DISCUSSION...LINE OF TSTMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ENEWD ACROSS NCNTRL
TX INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. VERTICAL SHEAR WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR
SUPERCELLS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE LINE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. LOW-LEVEL SHEAR AND ABUNDANT BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WILL
ALSO BE CONDUCIVE FOR POSSIBLE TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24025.
...RACY/CORFIDI
335,0963 321,0981 321,0995 335,0981SPC 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 | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 3 more | 96 min |
| Jun 4, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Craig and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 53 more | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | LeFlore | 5 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 |
| Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 17 more | 84 min |
| Jun 4, 10:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, La Salle, Live Oak and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 2:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Newton, Sabine | 95 min |
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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.