Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 112
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 14, 2008, 8:17 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2008, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 1:01 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 51 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Barry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Mar 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner | 63 min |
| Mar 14, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Crawford, Washington | 54 min |
| Mar 14, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 59 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 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 23 more | 55 min |
| Mar 14, 10:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 29 more | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 15 more | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Mississippi | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 26 more | 93 min |
| Mar 15, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lee, Monroe and 2 more | 90 min |
| Mar 15, 10:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2008
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.