Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 56
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 9, 2007, 5:03 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2007, 5:03 PM CST (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2007, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 56 min |
| Mar 9, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 6:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes | 40 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Howard, Little River, Miller, Polk, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more | 96 min |
| Mar 9, 11:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 23 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2007Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007
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.