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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 280

May 11, 201159 counties in Oklahoma; Clay County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 11, 2011, 1:16 PM CDT for 59 counties in Oklahoma; Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 2011, 1:16 PM CDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 60 counties

Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Clay County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Jefferson, Love, Stephens46 min
May 11, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay, Noble75 min
May 11, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall52 min
May 11, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Johnston, McClain, Murray, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie60 min
May 11, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay31 min
May 11, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage27 min
May 11, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Pontotoc and 2 more54 min
May 11, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha65 min
May 11, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne, Pottawatomie and 1 more71 min
May 11, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc53 min
May 11, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee53 min
May 11, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHughes25 min
May 11, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Washington50 min
May 11, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka31 min
May 11, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha61 min
May 11, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee49 min
May 11, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee47 min
May 11, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa39 min
May 11, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington39 min
May 11, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha66 min
May 11, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Rogers, Washington49 min
May 11, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Craig, Creek, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes and 5 more64 min
May 11, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington59 min
May 11, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata, Washington29 min
May 11, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah52 min
May 11, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa60 min
May 11, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Delaware33 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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2011-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1845 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2011-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 2:28 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCTexas92 min
May 11, 7:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harmon, Harper, Roger Mills60 min
May 11, 12:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston and 19 more87 min
May 11, 1:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Harper84 min
May 11, 2:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMcCurtain84 min
May 11, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
May 11, 6:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEllis, Harper, Woods, Woodward88 min
May 11, 6:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, LeFlore, Mayes and 3 more55 min
May 11, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 46 more8 hr
May 11, 9:56 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 20 more94 min
May 11, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 52 more5 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.