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Tornado Watch 68

March 29, 202552 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 29, 2025, 7:51 PM CDT for 52 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 29, 2025, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 52 counties

Atoka County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Major County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	48 min
Mar 29, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills, Washita	40 min
Mar 29, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Stephens	40 min
Mar 29, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Washita	33 min
Mar 29, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	41 min
Mar 29, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	48 min
Mar 29, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	50 min
Mar 29, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Washita	19 min
Mar 29, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	31 min
Mar 29, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma	39 min
Mar 29, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	47 min
Mar 29, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita	43 min
Mar 29, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Major	39 min
Mar 29, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Major	42 min
Mar 29, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Washita	19 min
Mar 29, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie	48 min
Mar 29, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma	26 min
Mar 29, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	40 min
Mar 29, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Noble	39 min
Mar 29, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher and 2 more	30 min
Mar 29, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	31 min
Mar 29, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	25 min
Mar 29, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kay, Logan, Noble	29 min
Mar 30, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	14 min
Mar 30, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa and 1 more	41 min
Mar 30, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers and 2 more	40 min
Mar 30, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Washington	49 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 1893 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 9:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 36 more	2 hr
Mar 29, 11:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 23 more	119 min
Mar 30, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 11 more	5 hr
Mar 30, 3:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, McCurtain	114 min
Mar 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	McCurtain	6 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.