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Tornado Watch 319
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2025, 9:13 PM CDT for 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2025, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2025, 1:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Washita County, OK
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- 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
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 52 min |
| May 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Dewey, Major | 50 min |
| May 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer, Ellis, Roger Mills | 45 min |
| May 24, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Dewey, Kingfisher | 44 min |
| May 24, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 39 min |
| May 24, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 43 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.9
- Supercell composite
- 25.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 13 more | 83 min |
| May 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield and 17 more | 90 min |
| May 24, 11:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Washita | 93 min |
| May 24, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 25 more | 9 hr |
| May 25, 1:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Kay, Mayes, Nowata and 6 more | 89 min |
| May 25, 5:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 13 more | 96 min |
| May 25, 1:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 97 min |
| May 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 9 hr |
| May 25, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Hughes, Lincoln, McClain and 6 more | 96 min |
| May 25, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 116 min |
| May 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 25, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Comanche and 16 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.