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Tornado Watch 125

March 17, 200817 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 17, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT for 17 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 17, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 2008, 10:21 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 51 counties

Clark County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Yell County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 5%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hunt	41 min
Mar 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	52 min
Mar 17, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	51 min
Mar 17, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	56 min
Mar 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	35 min
Mar 17, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	61 min
Mar 17, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	57 min
Mar 17, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	43 min
Mar 17, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	67 min
Mar 17, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	45 min
Mar 17, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Yell	39 min
Mar 17, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope	45 min
Mar 17, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	47 min
Mar 17, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	24 min
Mar 17, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	26 min
Mar 17, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	28 min
Mar 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	36 min
Mar 17, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	14 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 5:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Montgomery and 3 more	30 min
Mar 16, 11:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harmon	56 min
Mar 17, 2:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more	2 hr
Mar 17, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 34 more	8 hr
Mar 17, 4:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Harper, Texas	119 min
Mar 17, 5:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 23 more	94 min
Mar 17, 7:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 26 more	83 min
Mar 17, 10:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 17 more	65 min
Mar 17, 1:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa and 3 more	88 min
Mar 17, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 9 more	6 hr
Mar 17, 3:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more	97 min
Mar 17, 4:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, Creek, Kay, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 12 more	24 min
Mar 17, 6:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more	25 min
Mar 17, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 38 more	9 hr
Mar 17, 10:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more	92 min
Mar 17, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.