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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 86
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 2, 2008, 6:18 PM CST for 12 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2008, 6:18 PM CST (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 1:17 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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
- 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 67 min |
| Mar 2, 10:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 53 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson, Marshall and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 6:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:01 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 6 more | 59 min |
| Mar 2, 8:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain | 54 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.