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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 33
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 29, 2016, 7:36 PM CST for 65 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2016, 7:36 PM CST (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 69 counties
Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine 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, Custer County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon 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, Hardeman County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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
- 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
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita | 42 min |
| Feb 29, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa | 41 min |
| Feb 29, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, McClain and 1 more | 62 min |
| Feb 29, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Grady, Murray, Stephens | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 2:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 2:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 24 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 9:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 37 more | 92 min |
| Feb 29, 11:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 20 more | 57 min |
| Mar 1, 1:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Craig and 26 more | 88 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.