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Tornado Watch 42
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 8, 2006, 5:30 PM CST for 17 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2006, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 10:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor | 41 min |
| Mar 8, 10:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 11:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Murray | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Mar 8, 11:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Clay | 14 min |
| Mar 8, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Murray | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 11:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 11:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Love | 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 9:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Nowata and 5 more | 87 min |
| Mar 8, 9:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 12:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | LeFlore | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, McClain and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Cleveland, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Lincoln and 16 more | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Cleveland, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Hughes and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 9 more | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 6:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Terrell, Upton | 65 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2006Tornado Watches in Texas, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006
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.