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Tornado Watch 473

June 13, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2005, 2:55 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2005, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 80 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Cherokee 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, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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

72 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	40 min
Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Warren	45 min
Jun 13, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	39 min
Jun 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	46 min
Jun 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	63 min
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Montgomery, Pike	45 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade, Montgomery	40 min
Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Audrain, Pike	45 min
Jun 13, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	40 min
Jun 13, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Pulaski	6 hr
Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	60 min
Jun 13, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	39 min
Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	64 min
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Maries	6 hr
Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	49 min
Jun 13, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	33 min
Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	49 min
Jun 13, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	62 min
Jun 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	28 min
Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	63 min
Jun 13, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	46 min
Jun 13, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	61 min
Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	54 min
Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	67 min
Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Lawrence, Newton	60 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	49 min
Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	6 hr
Jun 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	70 min
Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	66 min
Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	54 min
Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee	53 min
Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	61 min
Jun 13, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	61 min
Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Phelps, Pulaski	52 min
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	51 min
Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	53 min
Jun 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Pontotoc	52 min
Jun 13, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	51 min
Jun 13, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps	29 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Webster	63 min
Jun 13, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	37 min
Jun 13, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pushmataha	58 min
Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal	27 min
Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Crawford	40 min
Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	51 min
Jun 13, 8:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	49 min
Jun 13, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	66 min
Jun 13, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	38 min
Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	65 min
Jun 13, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Wright	66 min
Jun 13, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	50 min
Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	66 min
Jun 13, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	71 min
Jun 13, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	55 min
Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	45 min
Jun 13, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	47 min
Jun 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Texas	74 min
Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	37 min
Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas	78 min
Jun 13, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	67 min
Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	53 min
Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	50 min
Jun 13, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	64 min
Jun 13, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	50 min
Jun 13, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dent	66 min
Jun 13, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	64 min
Jun 13, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Texas	24 min
Jun 13, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	56 min
Jun 13, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	34 min
Jun 13, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	34 min
Jun 13, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	24 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Randolph	8 hr
Jun 13, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison and 3 more	116 min
Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Washington	2 hr
Jun 12, 11:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 8 more	7 hr
Jun 13, 1:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camden, Carter, Crawford, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 16 more	83 min
Jun 13, 4:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion and 8 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 12:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Perry, Scott, Stoddard	2 hr
Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more	94 min
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lincoln, Saint Charles	7 hr
Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	2 hr
Jun 13, 6:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Andrew, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 8 more	84 min
Jun 12, 8:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 35 more	119 min
Jun 13, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 9 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.