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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 55

March 9, 20077 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 9, 2007, 3:31 PM CST for 7 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2007, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2007, 10:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg60 min
Mar 9, 5:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell53 min
Mar 9, 5:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Pushmataha62 min
Mar 9, 5:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah56 min
Mar 9, 5:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer67 min
Mar 9, 6:21 PM CSTTornado WarningTSALatimer24 min
Mar 9, 6:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore45 min
Mar 9, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha59 min
Mar 9, 7:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar28 min
Mar 9, 7:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River63 min
Mar 9, 7:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore29 min
Mar 9, 7:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMcCurtain61 min
Mar 9, 8:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMcCurtain63 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 323 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
432 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
Mar 9, 5:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington5 hr
Mar 9, 11:36 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 23 more84 min
Mar 9, 4:39 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more96 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.