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Tornado Watch 152

April 27, 202448 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 27, 2024, 7:50 PM CDT for 48 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 2024, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2024, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 73 counties

Atoka 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, Delaware 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, 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, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Grady, Stephens	52 min
Apr 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, Stephens and 1 more	49 min
Apr 27, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	29 min
Apr 27, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	40 min
Apr 27, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	50 min
Apr 27, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Wichita	50 min
Apr 27, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Stonewall	62 min
Apr 27, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	30 min
Apr 27, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay, Wichita	36 min
Apr 27, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Marshall	50 min
Apr 27, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	64 min
Apr 27, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell	61 min
Apr 27, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 3 more	45 min
Apr 27, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	25 min
Apr 27, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	51 min
Apr 27, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Grady, McClain	46 min
Apr 27, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	45 min
Apr 27, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan	21 min
Apr 27, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	29 min
Apr 27, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 6 more	39 min
Apr 27, 9:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell	3 hr
Apr 27, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Pontotoc	50 min
Apr 27, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	28 min
Apr 27, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Murray	46 min
Apr 27, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	61 min
Apr 27, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	45 min
Apr 27, 9:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cotton, Grady, Stephens	5 hr
Apr 27, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	57 min
Apr 27, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Hughes, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 5 more	40 min
Apr 27, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	55 min
Apr 27, 9:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	39 min
Apr 27, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, McClain and 1 more	51 min
Apr 27, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Lincoln, Oklahoma	17 min
Apr 27, 9:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	32 min
Apr 27, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	62 min
Apr 27, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	44 min
Apr 27, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	43 min
Apr 27, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray	42 min
Apr 27, 10:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	25 min
Apr 27, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	23 min
Apr 27, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, McClain, Payne, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more	52 min
Apr 27, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	44 min
Apr 27, 10:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Stonewall	88 min
Apr 27, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	56 min
Apr 27, 10:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	39 min
Apr 27, 10:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	39 min
Apr 27, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	39 min
Apr 27, 10:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	22 min
Apr 27, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter	34 min
Apr 27, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	OUN	Hughes	32 min
Apr 27, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	32 min
Apr 27, 10:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Murray	4 hr
Apr 27, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Pontotoc	29 min
Apr 27, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Okfuskee	43 min
Apr 27, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan	56 min
Apr 27, 10:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Murray	51 min
Apr 27, 10:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Love	48 min
Apr 27, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	63 min
Apr 27, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	45 min
Apr 27, 11:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	26 min
Apr 27, 11:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	4 hr
Apr 27, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Taylor	66 min
Apr 27, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Murray	34 min
Apr 27, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	45 min
Apr 27, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	44 min
Apr 27, 11:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	42 min
Apr 27, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	56 min
Apr 27, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	55 min
Apr 27, 11:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	23 min
Apr 27, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	67 min
Apr 27, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	5 hr
Apr 27, 11:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	26 min
Apr 27, 11:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	16 min
Apr 27, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington	57 min
Apr 27, 11:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray, Pontotoc	37 min
Apr 27, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	32 min
Apr 27, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
Apr 27, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	56 min
Apr 27, 11:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	30 min
Apr 27, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Young	54 min
Apr 27, 11:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa	16 min
Apr 28, 12:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	32 min
Apr 28, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	52 min
Apr 28, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	34 min
Apr 28, 12:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Pontotoc	33 min
Apr 28, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	48 min
Apr 28, 12:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	47 min
Apr 28, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	47 min
Apr 28, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Wagoner	57 min
Apr 28, 12:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes	26 min
Apr 28, 12:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	39 min
Apr 28, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	28 min
Apr 28, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	66 min
Apr 28, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	63 min
Apr 28, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	62 min
Apr 28, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Hughes, Johnston and 4 more	44 min
Apr 28, 12:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner	43 min
Apr 28, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens	50 min
Apr 28, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	63 min
Apr 28, 1:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	43 min
Apr 28, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more	64 min
Apr 28, 1:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	3 hr
Apr 28, 1:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner	45 min
Apr 28, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	43 min
Apr 28, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Love and 3 more	40 min
Apr 28, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Ottawa	32 min
Apr 28, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg	60 min
Apr 28, 1:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	39 min
Apr 28, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray, Pontotoc	3 hr
Apr 28, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah	63 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 2161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 401 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 456 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.0
Supercell composite: 20.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 12:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	88 min
Apr 28, 1:03 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	6 hr
Apr 28, 4:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 6 more	64 min
Apr 28, 3:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Polk, Scott and 3 more	2 hr
Apr 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 5 more	6 hr
Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union	62 min
Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Lafayette, Ouachita, Union	8 hr
Apr 28, 6:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Madison, Washington	55 min
Apr 27, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Clark, Grundy, Knox, Putnam, Schuyler and 2 more	64 min
Apr 27, 8:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Bates, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Cedar and 15 more	95 min
Apr 27, 9:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 13 more	60 min
Apr 27, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Franklin and 16 more	6 hr
Apr 27, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barry, Barton, Benton, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 18 more	5 hr
Apr 28, 1:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 32 more	66 min
Apr 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 39 more	60 min
Apr 27, 11:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Coal, Creek, Delaware, Hughes, Johnston and 14 more	72 min
Apr 27, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 27 more	8 hr
Apr 27, 11:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Glasscock, Howard, Irion, Mitchell and 10 more	114 min
Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Delta and 20 more	6 hr
Apr 28, 9:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Freestone, Grimes and 10 more	89 min
Apr 28, 1:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Falls and 10 more	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 38 more	11 hr
Apr 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Houston, Leon and 3 more	58 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.