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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 188
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2017, 10:53 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2017, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2017, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 52 min |
| May 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 45 min |
| May 2, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 52 min |
| May 3, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 45 min |
| May 3, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major, Woods, Woodward | 53 min |
| May 3, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods | 56 min |
| May 3, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 53 min |
| May 3, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 49 min |
| May 3, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 49 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 46 more | 2 hr |
| May 3, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 4:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 3 more | 96 min |
| May 3, 7:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Latimer, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 117 min |
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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.