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Tornado Watch 18

March 4, 20256 counties in Arkansas; 26 counties in Oklahoma; 50 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 4, 2025, 4:13 AM CST for 6 counties in Arkansas; 26 counties in Oklahoma; 50 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 4, 2025, 4:13 AM CST (10:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2025, 10:09 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 82 counties

Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:13 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: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 4:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	67 min
Mar 4, 4:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray and 1 more	48 min
Mar 4, 4:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	63 min
Mar 4, 4:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson, Montague	59 min
Mar 4, 4:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hood, Johnson, Somervell	49 min
Mar 4, 4:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	31 min
Mar 4, 5:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	29 min
Mar 4, 5:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	32 min
Mar 4, 5:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall, Pontotoc and 1 more	43 min
Mar 4, 5:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	40 min
Mar 4, 5:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	64 min
Mar 4, 5:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	30 min
Mar 4, 5:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	51 min
Mar 4, 5:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	51 min
Mar 4, 5:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	49 min
Mar 4, 5:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	27 min
Mar 4, 5:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	25 min
Mar 4, 5:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	40 min
Mar 4, 5:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes	52 min
Mar 4, 5:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	47 min
Mar 4, 6:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	26 min
Mar 4, 6:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	18 min
Mar 4, 6:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okmulgee	36 min
Mar 4, 6:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	71 min
Mar 4, 6:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, Robertson	54 min
Mar 4, 6:22 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	38 min
Mar 4, 6:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka	22 min
Mar 4, 6:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 2 more	50 min
Mar 4, 6:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Smith, Titus, Upshur, Wood	46 min
Mar 4, 6:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	45 min
Mar 4, 6:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	36 min
Mar 4, 6:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	49 min
Mar 4, 6:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	34 min
Mar 4, 6:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	45 min
Mar 4, 6:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	45 min
Mar 4, 6:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	57 min
Mar 4, 6:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Gregg, Rusk, Smith	41 min
Mar 4, 6:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	64 min
Mar 4, 7:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more	51 min
Mar 4, 7:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 7 more	48 min
Mar 4, 7:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha, Sequoyah	44 min
Mar 4, 7:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Sevier	51 min
Mar 4, 7:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	43 min
Mar 4, 7:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Rusk, Smith	46 min
Mar 4, 7:33 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Camp, Cass, Morris, Titus	27 min
Mar 4, 7:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Bowie, Morris, Red River, Titus	33 min
Mar 4, 7:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	34 min
Mar 4, 7:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, Sequoyah	48 min
Mar 4, 7:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Miller	46 min
Mar 4, 8:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Little River, Miller	36 min
Mar 4, 8:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Polk, Scott	64 min
Mar 4, 8:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier	48 min
Mar 4, 8:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk and 1 more	42 min
Mar 4, 8:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Rusk	15 min
Mar 4, 8:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more	47 min
Mar 4, 8:36 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	39 min
Mar 4, 8:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Harrison, Marion, Panola	46 min
Mar 4, 8:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine and 1 more	60 min
Mar 4, 8:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison	34 min
Mar 4, 9:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Union	67 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 472 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 6:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Scott, Sebastian, Washington	2 hr
Mar 4, 6:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 5 more	3 hr
Mar 4, 7:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 2 more	116 min
Mar 4, 8:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 16 more	7 hr
Mar 4, 8:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 7 more	94 min
Mar 4, 10:17 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 9 more	88 min
Mar 4, 11:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chicot	116 min
Mar 3, 7:55 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 31 more	95 min
Mar 3, 9:33 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 38 more	7 hr
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, 5:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall and 3 more	2 hr

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.