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Tornado Watch 700

November 3, 202438 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 3, 2024, 1:40 AM CST for 38 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 2024, 1:40 AM CST (07:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2024, 7:07 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 38 counties

Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston 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, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee 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

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:42 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: 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: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 1:41 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Nov 3, 1:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	36 min
Nov 3, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens	49 min
Nov 3, 1:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	32 min
Nov 3, 2:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	45 min
Nov 3, 2:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	43 min
Nov 3, 2:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	23 min
Nov 3, 2:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	48 min
Nov 3, 2:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Stephens	40 min
Nov 3, 2:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	36 min
Nov 3, 2:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Lincoln, Payne, Pottawatomie, Seminole	49 min
Nov 3, 2:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, McClain, Murray and 3 more	48 min
Nov 3, 2:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	38 min
Nov 3, 3:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pottawatomie, Seminole	29 min
Nov 3, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	41 min
Nov 3, 3:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	36 min
Nov 3, 3:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek	21 min
Nov 3, 3:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc and 1 more	50 min
Nov 3, 3:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	49 min
Nov 3, 3:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	15 min
Nov 3, 3:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa	46 min
Nov 3, 3:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	36 min
Nov 3, 3:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	34 min
Nov 3, 3:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	34 min
Nov 3, 3:51 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	24 min
Nov 3, 3:55 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	19 min
Nov 3, 4:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	42 min
Nov 3, 4:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Tulsa	32 min
Nov 3, 4:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	29 min
Nov 3, 4:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	23 min
Nov 3, 4:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	18 min
Nov 3, 4:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata and 2 more	31 min
Nov 3, 4:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata and 2 more	13 min
Nov 3, 4:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	44 min
Nov 3, 4:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more	39 min
Nov 3, 5:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Delaware, Ottawa, Sequoyah	40 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 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
Nov 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman	3 hr
Nov 2, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 20 more	5 hr
Nov 3, 1:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 23 more	113 min
Nov 3, 1:54 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 21 more	96 min
Nov 3, 3:30 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Hughes and 17 more	90 min
Nov 3, 11:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more	5 hr
Nov 3, 1:13 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Stephens and 1 more	92 min
Nov 3, 1:49 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 21 more	56 min
Nov 3, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 26 more	8 hr
Nov 3, 2:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 9 more	2 hr
Nov 3, 2:55 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Grady, McClain and 2 more	65 min
Nov 3, 3:19 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Jefferson, Johnston and 3 more	56 min
Nov 3, 4:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, McCurtain and 2 more	2 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.