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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 124
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 17, 2008, 1:30 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2008, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 49 counties
Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Logan County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 51 min |
| Mar 17, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 51 min |
| Mar 17, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 49 min |
| Mar 17, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 23 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 576 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 16, 11:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harmon | 56 min |
| Mar 17, 2:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Harper, Texas | 119 min |
| Mar 17, 5:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 23 more | 94 min |
| Mar 17, 7:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 26 more | 83 min |
| Mar 17, 10:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 17 more | 65 min |
| Mar 17, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa and 3 more | 88 min |
| Mar 17, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more | 97 min |
| Mar 17, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, Creek, Kay, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 12 more | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 25 min |
| Mar 17, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 38 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 17, 10:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more | 92 min |
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 54 more | 7 hr |
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.