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Tornado Watch 311
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 13, 2008, 2:03 PM CDT for 34 counties in Oklahoma; 54 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2008, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 88 counties
Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie | 38 min |
| May 13, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa | 38 min |
| May 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason, Menard | 42 min |
| May 13, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Menard | 24 min |
| May 13, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 26 min |
| May 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Menard | 35 min |
| May 13, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 47 min |
| May 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 31 min |
| May 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 45 min |
| May 13, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 38 min |
| May 13, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 54 min |
| May 13, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 37 min |
| May 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 60 min |
| May 13, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 49 min |
| May 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 59 min |
| May 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 39 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 116 min |
| May 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 53 min |
| May 13, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie, Seminole | 35 min |
| May 13, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 46 min |
| May 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| May 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 60 min |
| May 13, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Tom Green | 28 min |
| May 13, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Sutton | 57 min |
| May 13, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 56 min |
| May 13, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green | 35 min |
| May 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 49 min |
| May 13, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 40 min |
| May 13, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 29 min |
| May 13, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 30 min |
| May 13, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Menard | 34 min |
| May 13, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 26 min |
| May 13, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 52 min |
| May 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Menard | 32 min |
| May 13, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 29 min |
| May 13, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 38 min |
| May 13, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard | 2 hr |
| May 13, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes | 35 min |
| May 13, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Mason, Menard | 34 min |
| May 13, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 4 hr |
| May 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 42 min |
| May 13, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 35 min |
| May 13, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 43 min |
| May 13, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Randolph | 83 min |
| May 13, 6:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Polk, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more | 94 min |
| May 13, 9:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and 5 more | 53 min |
| May 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 84 min |
| May 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 26 more | 115 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Mason and 9 more | 91 min |
| May 13, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Dimmit, Edwards, Gillespie and 10 more | 5 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.