Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 319
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2016, 3:17 PM CDT for McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri; 51 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2016, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Latimer 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, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan, Payne | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Payne | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble, Payne | 20 min |
| Jul 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 5 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Oklahoma | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Oklahoma | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 5 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 16 min |
| Jul 3, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole | 52 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 97 min |
| Jul 2, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Grant, Harper, Texas, Woods and 1 more | 85 min |
| Jul 3, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garvin and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 119 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.