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Tornado Watch 94

March 30, 200739 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2007, 1:31 PM CDT for 39 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2007, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNStephens3 hr
Mar 30, 1:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNComanche3 hr
Mar 30, 1:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCotton3 hr
Mar 30, 3:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCarter, Love3 hr
Mar 30, 4:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNJefferson4 hr
Mar 30, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson42 min
Mar 30, 4:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNStephens3 hr
Mar 30, 5:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCanadian, Oklahoma117 min
Mar 30, 5:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain117 min
Mar 30, 6:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCarter, Love3 hr
Mar 30, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, McClain28 min
Mar 30, 7:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNMurray4 hr
Mar 30, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPontotoc45 min
Mar 30, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNSeminole30 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 2007-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 583 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 10:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 26 more119 min
Mar 30, 11:25 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 46 more65 min
Mar 30, 3:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin and 19 more89 min
Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 23 more97 min

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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.