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Tornado Watch 325

May 25, 2025Harmon County, Jackson County, Tillman County, Oklahoma; 29 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2025, 3:47 PM CDT for Harmon County, Jackson County, Tillman County, Oklahoma; 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2025, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 32 counties

Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
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: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Motley	66 min
May 25, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	44 min
May 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	24 min
May 25, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	3 hr
May 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	37 min
May 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	54 min
May 25, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	37 min
May 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley	31 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	King, Stonewall	54 min
May 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	3 hr
May 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	34 min
May 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley	52 min
May 25, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	61 min
May 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, King	58 min
May 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	King, Stonewall	57 min
May 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell	66 min
May 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	King	34 min
May 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe	40 min
May 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	46 min
May 25, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, King	29 min
May 25, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	51 min
May 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford	60 min
May 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Swisher	40 min
May 25, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Stonewall	63 min
May 25, 7:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Haskell	3 hr
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	28 min
May 25, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	36 min
May 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Hale, Lamb	65 min
May 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	59 min
May 25, 8:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Stonewall	2 hr
May 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	33 min
May 25, 8:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Haskell	3 hr
May 25, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	26 min
May 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry	36 min
May 25, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hale, Swisher	39 min
May 25, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Jones	28 min
May 25, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	22 min
May 25, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	59 min
May 25, 9:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Jones	3 hr
May 25, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	50 min
May 25, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	47 min
May 25, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	66 min
May 25, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton	48 min
May 25, 10:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	3 hr
May 25, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	25 min
May 25, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	63 min
May 25, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	57 min
May 25, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	67 min
May 25, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	65 min
May 25, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	54 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	47 min
May 25, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	58 min
May 25, 11:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Stonewall	4 hr
May 26, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	29 min
May 26, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	60 min
May 26, 12:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 778 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -368 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer and 7 more	4 hr
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, 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
May 25, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Briscoe, Dickens, Floyd, King, Motley, Swisher	2 hr
May 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Castro, Gray, Hemphill, Randall and 2 more	2 hr
May 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Floyd, Hall, Motley	91 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.