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Tornado Watch 702

November 3, 202432 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 3, 2024, 2:02 PM CST for 32 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 2024, 2:02 PM CST (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2024, 9:51 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 36 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady 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, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Cooke County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 2:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche	32 min
Nov 3, 2:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	3 hr
Nov 3, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Stephens	60 min
Nov 3, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jefferson	24 min
Nov 3, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Murray, Stephens	51 min
Nov 3, 3:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	67 min
Nov 3, 3:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Canadian	31 min
Nov 3, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	30 min
Nov 3, 3:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	25 min
Nov 3, 3:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Murray	24 min
Nov 3, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	51 min
Nov 3, 3:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	48 min
Nov 3, 4:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Murray	3 hr
Nov 3, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall and 3 more	38 min
Nov 3, 4:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Nov 3, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Marshall, Pontotoc	37 min
Nov 3, 4:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	49 min
Nov 3, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall, Pontotoc	48 min
Nov 3, 5:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	27 min
Nov 3, 5:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	4 hr
Nov 3, 5:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	3 hr
Nov 3, 5:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc	3 hr
Nov 3, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	49 min
Nov 3, 5:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	29 min
Nov 3, 5:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston	66 min
Nov 3, 5:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	51 min
Nov 3, 5:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	24 min
Nov 3, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	51 min
Nov 3, 6:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	32 min
Nov 3, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	51 min
Nov 3, 6:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Johnston	26 min
Nov 3, 6:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hughes	3 hr
Nov 3, 6:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	9 min
Nov 3, 6:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	34 min
Nov 3, 6:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	29 min
Nov 3, 6:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	50 min
Nov 3, 7:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Marshall	45 min
Nov 3, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	42 min
Nov 3, 7:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Muskogee, Pittsburg	38 min
Nov 3, 7:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	47 min
Nov 3, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	44 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 1168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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, 1:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 32 more	5 hr
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, 2:40 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
Nov 3, 9:51 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 51 more	114 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.