Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 545
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2008, 7:01 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2008, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley | 14 min |
| Jun 15, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 68 min |
| Jun 15, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Knox | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant, Kay | 80 min |
| Jun 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita | 70 min |
| Jun 15, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Kingfisher | 81 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 6288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 27 more | 113 min |
| Jun 15, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 41 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 6:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 32 more | 95 min |
| Jun 15, 11:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 115 min |
| Jun 16, 2:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Mayes and 6 more | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 1:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Garfield, Grant, Hughes and 14 more | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Ellis, Greer and 9 more | 92 min |
| Jun 16, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 41 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 38 more | 94 min |
| Jun 15, 9:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottle, Foard, Haskell, King, Knox, Stonewall | 96 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.