Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 468
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2008, 7:41 PM CDT for 33 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2008, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2008, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 80 kt
All 61 counties
Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 95%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 90%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 16 min |
| Jun 5, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 8 more | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 16 min |
| Jun 5, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Cleveland, Comanche, Grady, McClain | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Noble, Payne | 22 min |
| Jun 5, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, Stephens and 1 more | 80 min |
| Jun 5, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Garfield, Grady and 9 more | 75 min |
| Jun 5, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Hughes, Lincoln, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Love, Murray, Pontotoc and 1 more | 81 min |
| Jun 5, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 74 min |
| Jun 5, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 82 min |
| Jun 5, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 11:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 77 min |
| Jun 6, 12:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 98 min |
| Jun 6, 12:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 37 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 2209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 21.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 24 more | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 40 more | 116 min |
| Jun 5, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 36 more | 92 min |
| Jun 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion, McCulloch and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland and 10 more | 66 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.