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Tornado Watch 180

May 4, 202237 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 4, 2022, 9:41 PM CDT for 37 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2022, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 50 counties

Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore 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, Tillman County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hardeman, Wilbarger	3 hr
May 4, 9:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	3 hr
May 4, 9:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	5 hr
May 4, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	48 min
May 4, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	46 min
May 4, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	54 min
May 4, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	60 min
May 4, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	43 min
May 4, 10:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	5 hr
May 4, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	7 hr
May 4, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo	27 min
May 4, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	39 min
May 4, 10:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	23 min
May 4, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	4 hr
May 4, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	49 min
May 4, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	61 min
May 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	17 min
May 4, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	27 min
May 4, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jefferson, Love	38 min
May 4, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	48 min
May 4, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	46 min
May 4, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	27 min
May 4, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah	49 min
May 4, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Love	48 min
May 4, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	44 min
May 4, 11:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	11 hr
May 4, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	3 hr
May 4, 11:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	TSA	Okmulgee	5 hr
May 4, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa	48 min
May 5, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	52 min
May 5, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	36 min
May 5, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	47 min
May 5, 12:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche	4 hr
May 5, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman	51 min
May 5, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	47 min
May 5, 1:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 1 more	7 hr
May 5, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	41 min
May 5, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha and 1 more	42 min
May 5, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	50 min
May 5, 3:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer	2 hr

Discussions around it

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

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 2315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 12.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, McClain, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pottawatomie and 1 more	56 min
May 4, 7:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harmon, Tillman	84 min
May 4, 9:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 30 more	92 min
May 4, 11:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 27 more	117 min
May 5, 1:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 13 more	2 hr
May 5, 10:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garvin and 27 more	119 min
May 5, 1:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Latimer and 4 more	87 min
May 4, 7:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Edwards, Fisher, Glasscock, Haskell and 18 more	119 min
May 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Frio and 7 more	5 hr
May 4, 9:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Crockett, Haskell, Irion, Jones and 8 more	28 min
May 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bexar, Medina	90 min
May 5, 9:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass and 21 more	2 hr
May 5, 10:13 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bowie and 54 more	8 hr
May 5, 12:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 32 more	63 min
May 5, 3:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Brazos, Cherokee, Grimes, Houston, Madison and 7 more	2 hr
May 5, 5:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Blanco, Burleson, Caldwell, Fayette and 15 more	97 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.