Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 58
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 30, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 34 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland 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, Grant County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Wichita County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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
- 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
46 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Stephens | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson, Stephens | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 15 min |
| Mar 30, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Oklahoma | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig | 12 min |
| Mar 30, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 33 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Sedgwick and 1 more | 96 min |
| Mar 30, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 22 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 28 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 6 more | 83 min |
| Mar 30, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more | 84 min |
| Mar 30, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 30 more | 4 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.