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Tornado Watch 15

March 6, 202652 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 6, 2026, 2:44 PM CST for 52 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 2026, 2:44 PM CST (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 2026, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 77 counties

Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McCurtain 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, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 2:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	46 min
Mar 6, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	44 min
Mar 6, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie	52 min
Mar 6, 4:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	40 min
Mar 6, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	36 min
Mar 6, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	48 min
Mar 6, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin	47 min
Mar 6, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	42 min
Mar 6, 4:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	28 min
Mar 6, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie, Seminole	42 min
Mar 6, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	53 min
Mar 6, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	46 min
Mar 6, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	27 min
Mar 6, 4:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	39 min
Mar 6, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Seminole	49 min
Mar 6, 5:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	46 min
Mar 6, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln	36 min
Mar 6, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	63 min
Mar 6, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	31 min
Mar 6, 5:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	48 min
Mar 6, 6:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	57 min
Mar 6, 6:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	53 min
Mar 6, 6:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Seminole	28 min
Mar 6, 6:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	42 min
Mar 6, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Seminole	20 min
Mar 6, 6:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	43 min
Mar 6, 6:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	16 min
Mar 6, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	38 min
Mar 6, 7:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	38 min
Mar 6, 7:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	53 min
Mar 6, 7:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	37 min
Mar 6, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	50 min
Mar 6, 8:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	3 hr
Mar 6, 8:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Mayes	50 min
Mar 6, 8:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	39 min
Mar 6, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	51 min
Mar 6, 9:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	2 hr
Mar 6, 9:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	49 min
Mar 6, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	60 min
Mar 6, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	39 min
Mar 6, 9:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner	47 min
Mar 6, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	41 min
Mar 6, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	54 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 6:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more	2 hr
Mar 5, 7:35 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Kay and 3 more	85 min
Mar 5, 9:34 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Grant and 6 more	86 min
Mar 5, 11:42 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Custer, Dewey, Major, Roger Mills	93 min
Mar 6, 1:31 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	119 min
Mar 6, 1:57 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 27 more	3 hr
Mar 6, 5:41 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Hughes, McIntosh, Mayes and 9 more	94 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.