The National Weather Service in Norman issued a tornado warning at 5:31 p.m. CST Monday for southwestern Cotton County and southeastern Tillman County in Oklahoma and central Wichita County in Texas, in effect until 6 p.m. CST¹.

NWS said that at 5:30 p.m. CST a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was 7 miles east of Electra, Texas, moving east at 35 mph, with rotation indicated on radar¹. Locations listed as in the path included Burkburnett, Randlett and Cashion, plus Interstate 44 between mile markers 0 and 8¹. The agency said flying debris would be dangerous without shelter and that mobile homes could be damaged or destroyed¹.

NWS told people in the warned area to take cover immediately in a storm shelter, safe room or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building, and to leave vehicles and mobile homes for substantial shelter¹.

KOCO 5, reporting earlier Monday, said a tornado watch covered several western and central Oklahoma counties, including the Oklahoma City metro, until 10 p.m., and that a second wave of storms carried the day's tornado risk^2,3. The station's coverage did not detail the 5:31 p.m. warning for Cotton, Tillman and Wichita counties^2,3.