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Tornado Watch 381

June 6, 202536 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2025, 10:08 PM CDT for 36 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2025, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 48 counties

Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche 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, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
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: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	51 min
Jun 6, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	41 min
Jun 6, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	38 min
Jun 6, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Grady	50 min
Jun 6, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	48 min
Jun 6, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	43 min
Jun 6, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	53 min
Jun 6, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	46 min
Jun 6, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	44 min
Jun 6, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	41 min
Jun 6, 11:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	51 min
Jun 6, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	62 min
Jun 6, 11:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	10 min
Jun 6, 11:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	20 min
Jun 6, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	48 min
Jun 6, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	46 min
Jun 7, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	45 min
Jun 7, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	26 min
Jun 7, 12:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills, Washita	43 min
Jun 7, 12:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Logan	9 min
Jun 7, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	62 min
Jun 7, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Roberts, Sherman	66 min
Jun 7, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Kiowa, Washita	31 min
Jun 7, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	27 min
Jun 7, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Ellis, Harper, Major, Woods, Woodward	48 min
Jun 7, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne	47 min
Jun 7, 1:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	35 min
Jun 7, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	62 min
Jun 7, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major	40 min
Jun 7, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Collingsworth, Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	53 min
Jun 7, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	50 min
Jun 7, 1:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	30 min
Jun 7, 1:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant	26 min
Jun 7, 1:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	35 min
Jun 7, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	40 min
Jun 7, 1:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	19 min
Jun 7, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne	48 min
Jun 7, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	14 min
Jun 7, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Grant, Kay	26 min
Jun 7, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	33 min
Jun 7, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey, Greer and 3 more	43 min
Jun 7, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	16 min
Jun 7, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	26 min
Jun 7, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Kiowa, Washita	47 min
Jun 7, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	37 min
Jun 7, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	50 min
Jun 7, 5:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills, Washita	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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 9:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cimarron and 15 more	89 min
Jun 6, 11:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 24 more	94 min
Jun 7, 12:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Woods	88 min
Jun 7, 1:07 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 17 more	6 hr
Jun 7, 1:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 35 more	93 min
Jun 7, 2:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Kay, Noble, Osage, Pawnee	87 min
Jun 7, 3:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma and 2 more	84 min
Jun 7, 5:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	90 min
Jun 7, 6:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha	2 hr
Jun 6, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 8 more	94 min
Jun 6, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Hockley, Kent, Lubbock and 1 more	64 min
Jun 6, 8:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Baylor, Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 29 more	93 min
Jun 7, 1:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hale, Lamb and 1 more	97 min
Jun 7, 3:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	66 min
Jun 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	6 hr
Jun 7, 4:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	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.