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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2016, 11:38 AM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 18 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2016, 11:38 AM CDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2016, 4:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 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
- 5%
- 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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee, Tulsa | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 12:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 6 min |
| Jul 14, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes and 5 more | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 48 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Little River, Polk, Sevier | 95 min |
| Jul 14, 11:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 114 min |
| Jul 14, 2:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Conway, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin, Garland and 20 more | 91 min |
| Jul 14, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Cimarron, Comanche, Custer, Dewey and 8 more | 115 min |
| Jul 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer and 7 more | 7 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.