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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 6

March 25, 20154 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2015, 2:16 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2015, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 100 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 95%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 90%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	49 min
Mar 25, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	35 min
Mar 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	45 min
Mar 25, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, McDonald, Newton	42 min
Mar 25, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Pawnee	40 min
Mar 25, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	27 min
Mar 25, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	50 min
Mar 25, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	63 min
Mar 25, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	47 min
Mar 25, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	45 min
Mar 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	54 min
Mar 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	45 min
Mar 25, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	41 min
Mar 25, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	25 min
Mar 25, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Webster, Wright	51 min
Mar 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	50 min
Mar 25, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	47 min
Mar 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton	45 min
Mar 25, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	38 min
Mar 25, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	47 min
Mar 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	59 min
Mar 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	39 min
Mar 25, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	36 min
Mar 25, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Washington	50 min
Mar 25, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	47 min
Mar 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	15 min
Mar 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Stone	45 min
Mar 25, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	20 min
Mar 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	24 min
Mar 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	38 min
Mar 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Texas, Wright	51 min
Mar 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster, Wright	47 min
Mar 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	42 min
Mar 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	25 min
Mar 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	34 min
Mar 25, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	32 min
Mar 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison	46 min
Mar 25, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	38 min
Mar 25, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Washita	36 min
Mar 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	3 hr
Mar 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	45 min
Mar 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	45 min
Mar 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	42 min
Mar 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	6 hr
Mar 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	37 min
Mar 25, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Osage, Tulsa	36 min
Mar 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Logan	40 min
Mar 25, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	48 min
Mar 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	45 min
Mar 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	30 min
Mar 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian	52 min
Mar 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	32 min
Mar 25, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 3 more	59 min
Mar 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	28 min
Mar 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Carroll	41 min
Mar 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Mayes, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	26 min
Mar 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	66 min
Mar 25, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon, Texas	47 min
Mar 25, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	46 min
Mar 25, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Ottawa	32 min
Mar 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa	4 hr
Mar 25, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone	26 min
Mar 25, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	41 min
Mar 25, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Shannon, Texas	37 min
Mar 25, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	22 min
Mar 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	31 min
Mar 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Texas, Wright	6 hr
Mar 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	43 min
Mar 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	4 hr
Mar 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	27 min
Mar 25, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	55 min
Mar 25, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	25 min
Mar 25, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	68 min
Mar 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	6 min
Mar 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers and 2 more	49 min
Mar 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	33 min
Mar 25, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland	17 min
Mar 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	24 min
Mar 25, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	51 min
Mar 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	49 min
Mar 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	64 min
Mar 25, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	32 min
Mar 25, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	46 min
Mar 25, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	42 min
Mar 25, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	26 min
Mar 25, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	47 min
Mar 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	40 min
Mar 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	4 hr
Mar 25, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	23 min
Mar 25, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	51 min
Mar 25, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	64 min
Mar 25, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	48 min
Mar 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Grady, McClain	47 min
Mar 25, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	43 min
Mar 25, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark, Stone, Taney	6 hr
Mar 25, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa, Wagoner	4 hr
Mar 25, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	41 min
Mar 25, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	25 min
Mar 25, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	62 min
Mar 25, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	16 min
Mar 25, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	28 min
Mar 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	50 min
Mar 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	32 min
Mar 25, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	34 min
Mar 25, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	46 min
Mar 25, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady	43 min
Mar 25, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	41 min
Mar 25, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	37 min
Mar 25, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Stephens	51 min
Mar 25, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Marion	3 hr
Mar 25, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	45 min
Mar 25, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	39 min
Mar 25, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	38 min
Mar 25, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Madison, Washington	52 min
Mar 25, 8:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	6 hr
Mar 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	63 min
Mar 25, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	42 min
Mar 25, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more	41 min
Mar 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	50 min
Mar 25, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	38 min
Mar 25, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Grady, Murray, Stephens	50 min
Mar 25, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee	48 min
Mar 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	30 min
Mar 25, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	29 min
Mar 25, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion	42 min
Mar 25, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	56 min
Mar 25, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Stephens	25 min
Mar 25, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	64 min
Mar 25, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	44 min
Mar 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	52 min
Mar 25, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Pittsburg	46 min
Mar 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	4 hr
Mar 25, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah	44 min
Mar 25, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	50 min
Mar 25, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	63 min
Mar 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	52 min
Mar 25, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	39 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 7:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Marion and 6 more	116 min
Mar 25, 1:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 14 more	2 hr
Mar 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 19 more	87 min
Mar 25, 6:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay	59 min
Mar 25, 10:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Coffey, Crawford and 9 more	3 hr
Mar 25, 1:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Labette, Montgomery	3 hr
Mar 25, 2:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cotton, Jefferson, Tillman	115 min
Mar 25, 5:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Washita	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2015 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2015 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015

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.