Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 280
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2006, 8:06 PM CDT for 14 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2006, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2006, 1:23 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
Counties Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 64 min |
| May 2, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter | 63 min |
| May 2, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson, Stephens | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garfield, Garvin and 18 more | 93 min |
| May 2, 9:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin, Grady and 10 more | 96 min |
| May 2, 10:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray | 88 min |
| May 3, 1:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Latimer, Marshall, Pittsburg and 1 more | 32 min |
| May 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa | 59 min |
| May 3, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Delaware, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 15 more | 33 min |
| May 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Craig, Custer, Delaware and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 93 min |
| May 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Craig, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 14 more | 97 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.