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Tornado Warning 138, NWS Norman, OK

June 3, 2025Atoka County, Coal County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2025, 8:14 PM CDT for Atoka County, Coal County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2025, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Atoka County, OK, Coal County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1738 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 8.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:22 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:29 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:37 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:40 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 8:01 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	25 min
Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	49 min
Jun 3, 7:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 3, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal	26 min
Jun 3, 7:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 3, 7:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Jun 3, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	51 min
Jun 3, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	50 min
Jun 3, 8:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Murray	3 hr
Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Marshall	32 min
Jun 3, 8:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Coal	3 hr
Jun 3, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	52 min
Jun 3, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal	49 min
Jun 3, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan, Marshall	50 min
Jun 3, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Bryan, Marshall	52 min
Jun 3, 10:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	3 hr
Jun 3, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Bryan	64 min
Jun 3, 10:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	2 hr
Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	8 hr
Jun 4, 12:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	2 hr
Jun 4, 3:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka	7 days
Jun 4, 8:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OUN	Bryan	29 hr
Jun 4, 8:37 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	6 hr
Jun 3, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	23 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.