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Tornado Watch 149

April 19, 202522 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2025, 6:47 PM CDT for 22 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2025, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 35 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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: 40%
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: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	49 min
Apr 19, 7:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague	8 hr
Apr 19, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Love	42 min
Apr 19, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	37 min
Apr 19, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	40 min
Apr 19, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	24 min
Apr 19, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Montague	65 min
Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood	45 min
Apr 19, 8:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	9 hr
Apr 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Carter, Love	50 min
Apr 19, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Love	46 min
Apr 19, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter	43 min
Apr 19, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	44 min
Apr 19, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	42 min
Apr 19, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	40 min
Apr 19, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	25 min
Apr 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague	54 min
Apr 19, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hood, Parker	48 min
Apr 19, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	47 min
Apr 19, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Apr 19, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray	41 min
Apr 19, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Love, Marshall	39 min
Apr 19, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	38 min
Apr 19, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Love	37 min
Apr 19, 9:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	5 hr
Apr 19, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	62 min
Apr 19, 9:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pontotoc	44 min
Apr 19, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	12 min
Apr 19, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray	33 min
Apr 19, 10:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Erath, Palo Pinto, Parker	44 min
Apr 19, 10:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	28 min
Apr 19, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Love and 3 more	67 min
Apr 19, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	37 min
Apr 19, 10:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	47 min
Apr 19, 10:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	7 hr
Apr 19, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens	25 min
Apr 19, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	42 min
Apr 19, 10:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Bryan, Love, Marshall	29 min
Apr 19, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	4 hr
Apr 19, 10:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	53 min
Apr 19, 10:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	38 min
Apr 19, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	65 min
Apr 19, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	46 min
Apr 19, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	45 min
Apr 19, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	44 min
Apr 19, 10:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Bryan, Marshall	23 min
Apr 19, 10:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	35 min
Apr 19, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague, Wise	50 min
Apr 19, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	59 min
Apr 19, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Wise	16 min
Apr 19, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes	23 min
Apr 19, 11:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	4 hr
Apr 19, 11:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston	20 min
Apr 19, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	17 min
Apr 19, 11:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson, Montague	3 hr
Apr 19, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall	57 min
Apr 19, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Bryan	39 min
Apr 19, 11:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes	41 min
Apr 19, 11:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	49 min
Apr 19, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg	62 min
Apr 19, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes	34 min
Apr 19, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	16 min
Apr 19, 11:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	19 min
Apr 19, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	57 min
Apr 19, 11:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	52 min
Apr 19, 11:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	51 min
Apr 19, 11:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	7 min
Apr 19, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	48 min
Apr 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	32 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 372 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 468 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 8:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 47 more	86 min
Apr 18, 8:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more	85 min
Apr 18, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 11 more	8 hr
Apr 18, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more	6 hr
Apr 18, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Greer, Harmon and 8 more	4 hr
Apr 18, 11:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Caddo, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 31 more	94 min
Apr 19, 1:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee and 1 more	2 hr
Apr 19, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston and 4 more	91 min
Apr 18, 11:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 12 more	90 min
Apr 19, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 21 more	6 hr
Apr 19, 2:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 12 more	114 min
Apr 19, 1:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 45 more	92 min
Apr 19, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 50 more	8 hr
Apr 19, 4:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Glasscock, Irion, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan and 5 more	54 min
Apr 19, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, Runnels, Sterling and 1 more	5 hr

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.