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Tornado Watch 790

September 14, 200511 counties in Oklahoma; 30 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 14, 2005, 3:05 PM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 2005, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Carter County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens48 min
Sep 14, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza58 min
Sep 14, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley23 min
Sep 14, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle61 min
Sep 14, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing65 min
Sep 14, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens34 min
Sep 14, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard42 min
Sep 14, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza25 min
Sep 14, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent59 min
Sep 14, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHardeman50 min
Sep 14, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard49 min
Sep 14, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox45 min
Sep 14, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Howard55 min
Sep 14, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Scurry29 min
Sep 14, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby56 min
Sep 14, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHardeman48 min
Sep 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent47 min
Sep 14, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Wilbarger57 min
Sep 14, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Jackson39 min
Sep 14, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza35 min
Sep 14, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Knox48 min
Sep 14, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Tillman48 min
Sep 14, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Wichita53 min
Sep 14, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox, Wilbarger49 min
Sep 14, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens23 min
Sep 14, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing55 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-342 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 7:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Craig, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Mayes and 7 more2 hr
Sep 13, 9:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 23 more87 min
Sep 13, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Lincoln, Mayes and 10 more7 hr
Sep 14, 1:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 9 more55 min
Sep 14, 2:15 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Creek, Delaware, Lincoln, Mayes, Okmulgee and 2 more60 min
Sep 14, 3:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 29 more6 hr
Sep 14, 7:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 53 more54 min
Sep 14, 1:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 12 more97 min
Sep 14, 2:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Latimer, McCurtain, Pushmataha93 min
Sep 14, 4:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron2 hr
Sep 14, 5:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 25 more118 min
Sep 14, 6:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more92 min
Sep 14, 4:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Irion and 6 more88 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.