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Tornado Watch 138
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2024, 5:33 AM CDT for 20 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2024, 5:33 AM CDT (10:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 5:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 5:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 3 more | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg and 1 more | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers and 3 more | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 2 more | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 1 more | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 9:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Creek, Hughes and 12 more | 93 min |
| Apr 26, 7:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more | 115 min |
| Apr 26, 10:12 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Creek and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 92 min |
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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.