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Tornado Watch 95
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2025, 2:46 AM CDT for 46 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2025, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 9:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 46 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major 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, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Kiowa, Washita | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Stephens | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 5:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, McClain and 1 more | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 16 min |
| Apr 2, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan, Payne | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 5:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Murray and 5 more | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 4 more | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, McClain, Murray and 3 more | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 6:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 6:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa and 1 more | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 7:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 4 more | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole | 52 min |
| Apr 2, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 4 more | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 4 more | 27 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 601 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 8:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Lincoln and 4 more | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 2:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 36 more | 118 min |
| Apr 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 6 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.