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Tornado Watch 398
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2009, 3:15 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 30 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 13, 2009, 3:20 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2009, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 13, 2009, 3:20 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2009, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 4 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 35 counties
Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan 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, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
38 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Motley | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 22 min |
| Jun 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 16 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 31 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 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 12, 8:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 3:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 23 more | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 7:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Woods | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 86 min |
| Jun 13, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Roger Mills, Texas | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano, McCulloch, Mason and 1 more | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 2:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 8 more | 95 min |
| Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Martin and 6 more | 90 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.