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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 394

July 3, 201732 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2017, 8:39 PM CDT for 32 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2017, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2017, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
65 kt
All 32 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
40%
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

12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAOsage8 hr
Jul 3, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee65 min
Jul 3, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee51 min
Jul 3, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa61 min
Jul 3, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more60 min
Jul 3, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole13 min
Jul 3, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee67 min
Jul 3, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCoal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole69 min
Jul 3, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa51 min
Jul 3, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkmulgee18 min
Jul 3, 11:49 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner26 min
Jul 4, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner41 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2017-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2711 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2017-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2711 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
17.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Custer and 16 more64 min
Jul 3, 8:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 20 more67 min
Jul 3, 10:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Haskell and 16 more60 min
Jul 4, 12:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell and 5 more114 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.