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Tornado Watch 704

November 4, 202440 counties in Oklahoma; 29 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 4, 2024, 10:52 AM CST for 40 counties in Oklahoma; 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 4, 2024, 10:52 AM CST (16:52 UTC)
Expired: Nov 4, 2024, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 69 counties

Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 4, 10:55 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	29 min
Nov 4, 10:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Murray, Stephens	47 min
Nov 4, 11:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	43 min
Nov 4, 11:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	27 min
Nov 4, 11:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	38 min
Nov 4, 11:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	40 min
Nov 4, 11:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	51 min
Nov 4, 11:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	48 min
Nov 4, 11:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	32 min
Nov 4, 11:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	43 min
Nov 4, 11:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	32 min
Nov 4, 12:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	42 min
Nov 4, 12:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	39 min
Nov 4, 12:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	45 min
Nov 4, 12:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	40 min
Nov 4, 12:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa, Washington	25 min
Nov 4, 12:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Seminole	31 min
Nov 4, 12:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	37 min
Nov 4, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	43 min
Nov 4, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Johnson	41 min
Nov 4, 12:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	24 min
Nov 4, 12:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	22 min
Nov 4, 12:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	50 min
Nov 4, 12:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	33 min
Nov 4, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	45 min
Nov 4, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	28 min
Nov 4, 1:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	23 min
Nov 4, 1:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	46 min
Nov 4, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	23 min
Nov 4, 1:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	23 min
Nov 4, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Love, Marshall	42 min
Nov 4, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	41 min
Nov 4, 1:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	13 min
Nov 4, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	45 min
Nov 4, 2:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	31 min
Nov 4, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	27 min
Nov 4, 2:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	28 min
Nov 4, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston	52 min
Nov 4, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	47 min
Nov 4, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	46 min
Nov 4, 2:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	46 min
Nov 4, 2:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Wagoner	19 min
Nov 4, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	45 min
Nov 4, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	47 min
Nov 4, 3:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	28 min
Nov 4, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson	31 min
Nov 4, 3:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas	4 hr
Nov 4, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Adair	32 min
Nov 4, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	28 min
Nov 4, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	24 min
Nov 4, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	48 min
Nov 4, 4:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	39 min
Nov 4, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Adair	36 min
Nov 4, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	30 min
Nov 4, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	23 min
Nov 4, 4:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	3 hr
Nov 4, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	49 min
Nov 4, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	52 min
Nov 4, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair	27 min
Nov 4, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	31 min
Nov 4, 4:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	McCurtain	29 min
Nov 4, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	51 min
Nov 4, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	45 min
Nov 4, 5:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith, Upshur, Wood	44 min
Nov 4, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	McCurtain	41 min
Nov 4, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	47 min
Nov 4, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	McCurtain	42 min
Nov 4, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	27 min
Nov 4, 5:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah	8 hr
Nov 4, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	42 min
Nov 4, 6:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Sequoyah	4 hr
Nov 4, 6:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	McCurtain	8 hr
Nov 4, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	49 min
Nov 4, 6:56 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	6 hr
Nov 4, 7:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	McCurtain	3 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 353 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 6:46 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier	119 min
Nov 3, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	4 hr
Nov 3, 9:59 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Polk, Scott, Sebastian	2 hr
Nov 4, 12:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton	63 min
Nov 4, 1:14 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	91 min
Nov 4, 1:26 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Johnson, Little River and 9 more	2 hr
Nov 4, 1:35 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more	9 hr
Nov 4, 2:54 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Washington	96 min
Nov 4, 5:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Howard, Little River, Miller, Pike, Sevier	55 min
Nov 4, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier	6 hr
Nov 3, 11:37 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	2 hr
Nov 4, 5:01 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more	119 min
Nov 4, 8:37 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 27 more	2 hr
Nov 3, 7:19 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan and 4 more	86 min
Nov 4, 1:07 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 13 more	83 min
Nov 4, 3:38 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Burnet, Camp, Collin, Coryell and 30 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.