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Tornado Watch 17

March 3, 202544 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 3, 2025, 9:33 PM CST for 44 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2025, 9:33 PM CST (03:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2025, 5:00 AM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 72 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Major County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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: 60%
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: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	31 min
Mar 3, 10:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills, Washita	50 min
Mar 3, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa	48 min
Mar 3, 10:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey	44 min
Mar 3, 10:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	28 min
Mar 3, 10:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Greer, Harmon and 3 more	50 min
Mar 3, 11:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	23 min
Mar 3, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	30 min
Mar 3, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer, Jackson and 3 more	45 min
Mar 4, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Kiowa, Washita	19 min
Mar 4, 1:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	26 min
Mar 4, 1:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	44 min
Mar 4, 2:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	29 min
Mar 4, 2:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Young	39 min
Mar 4, 2:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Concho, Irion, Runnels, Tom Green	57 min
Mar 4, 2:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Irion, Runnels, Tom Green	47 min
Mar 4, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford, Taylor	62 min
Mar 4, 3:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Kimble, McCulloch, Menard, Schleicher and 1 more	58 min
Mar 4, 3:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Stephens	52 min
Mar 4, 3:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	36 min
Mar 4, 3:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise, Young	48 min
Mar 4, 3:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	43 min
Mar 4, 3:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	30 min
Mar 4, 3:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	60 min
Mar 4, 3:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	58 min
Mar 4, 3:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise, Young	68 min
Mar 4, 3:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Love, Murray, Stephens	47 min
Mar 4, 4:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray and 1 more	48 min
Mar 4, 4:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson, Montague	59 min
Mar 4, 4:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	31 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -433 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 534 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 486 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 7:55 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 31 more	95 min
Mar 3, 11:31 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 20 more	119 min
Mar 4, 2:38 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 2 more	2 hr
Mar 4, 4:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 20 more	6 hr
Mar 4, 5:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall and 3 more	2 hr
Mar 4, 6:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 5 more	2 hr
Mar 4, 6:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	3 hr
Mar 4, 8:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ottawa	94 min
Mar 4, 7:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison and 9 more	116 min
Mar 4, 8:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton and 6 more	7 hr
Mar 4, 10:17 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange and 3 more	88 min

Nearby

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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.