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Tornado Watch 214
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 11, 2023, 11:37 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2023, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2023, 2:54 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 min |
| May 12, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| May 12, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| May 12, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| May 12, 1:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| May 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 47 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, Oklahoma | 53 min |
| May 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, McClain | 94 min |
| May 11, 10:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 89 min |
| May 12, 1:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Coal, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg and 1 more | 113 min |
| May 12, 1:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love, Marshall and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 37 more | 10 hr |
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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.