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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 95
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 16, 2016, 7:07 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2016, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
Counties Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 23 min |
| Apr 16, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon, Jackson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Tillman | 24 min |
| Apr 16, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 52 min |
| Apr 16, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Clay, Wichita | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 11:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Kiowa, Washita | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 11:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 6 hr |
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 117 min |
| Apr 17, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock and 18 more | 93 min |
| Apr 16, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 20 more | 92 min |
| Apr 16, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 17 more | 59 min |
| Apr 17, 7:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton and 3 more | 87 min |
| Apr 17, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal and 8 more | 88 min |
| Apr 17, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 1 more | 2 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.