Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2024

Tornado Watch 42

March 14, 202439 counties in Oklahoma; 7 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2024, 11:09 AM CDT for 39 counties in Oklahoma; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2024, 11:09 AM CDT (16:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 46 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, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware 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, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 80%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Grady, Stephens	42 min
Mar 14, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Stephens	41 min
Mar 14, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	45 min
Mar 14, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	41 min
Mar 14, 11:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	111 min
Mar 14, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin, Stephens	47 min
Mar 14, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	39 min
Mar 14, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	24 min
Mar 14, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Stephens	49 min
Mar 14, 12:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Seminole	27 min
Mar 14, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	23 min
Mar 14, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	52 min
Mar 14, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	34 min
Mar 14, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	33 min
Mar 14, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	62 min
Mar 14, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	42 min
Mar 14, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	31 min
Mar 14, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	60 min
Mar 14, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	37 min
Mar 14, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Murray	49 min
Mar 14, 12:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	34 min
Mar 14, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	47 min
Mar 14, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	46 min
Mar 14, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	33 min
Mar 14, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	44 min
Mar 14, 1:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	26 min
Mar 14, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee	29 min
Mar 14, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	27 min
Mar 14, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	40 min
Mar 14, 1:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	2 hr
Mar 14, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	49 min
Mar 14, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	49 min
Mar 14, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	33 min
Mar 14, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Delaware	53 min
Mar 14, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	26 min
Mar 14, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	21 min
Mar 14, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes and 6 more	34 min
Mar 14, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	28 min
Mar 14, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh and 3 more	50 min
Mar 14, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	46 min
Mar 14, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	46 min
Mar 14, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah	45 min
Mar 14, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	50 min
Mar 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, Sequoyah	49 min
Mar 14, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes	47 min
Mar 14, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	44 min
Mar 14, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	36 min
Mar 14, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	51 min
Mar 14, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	50 min
Mar 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	34 min
Mar 14, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	47 min
Mar 14, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	14 min
Mar 14, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	48 min
Mar 14, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	48 min
Mar 14, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Mar 14, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	57 min
Mar 14, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	48 min
Mar 14, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	29 min
Mar 14, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	39 min
Mar 14, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	39 min
Mar 14, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	48 min
Mar 14, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Pontotoc	48 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 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 2303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 11.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 10:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 13 more	90 min
Mar 14, 12:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 5 more	92 min
Mar 14, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	7 hr
Mar 14, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Conway and 29 more	85 min
Mar 14, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway, Dallas and 36 more	7 hr
Mar 14, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	7 hr
Mar 14, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	7 hr
Mar 14, 5:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 39 more	119 min
Mar 14, 6:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Little River, Polk, Sevier	2 hr
Mar 14, 10:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Coal and 25 more	119 min
Mar 14, 1:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Coal and 18 more	85 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2024 Tornado Watches in Texas, 2024 Every tornado watch in 2024

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.