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Tornado Watch 152

April 19, 202512 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2025, 11:33 PM CDT for 12 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2025, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2025, 5:11 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 55 counties

Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Newton County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
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: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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
Apr 20, 12:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	3 hr
Apr 20, 12:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Apr 20, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	44 min
Apr 20, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	44 min
Apr 20, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto	26 min
Apr 20, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	46 min
Apr 20, 12:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	50 min
Apr 20, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	49 min
Apr 20, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	33 min
Apr 20, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	4 hr
Apr 20, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	37 min
Apr 20, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	46 min
Apr 20, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	39 min
Apr 20, 1:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	18 min
Apr 20, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton	34 min
Apr 20, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Sequoyah	45 min
Apr 20, 2:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	12 min
Apr 20, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens	34 min
Apr 20, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	47 min
Apr 20, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	51 min
Apr 20, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	51 min
Apr 20, 3:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Young	4 hr
Apr 20, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Crawford, Madison, Washington	46 min
Apr 20, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	30 min
Apr 20, 3:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall, Pontotoc	2 hr
Apr 20, 3:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague, Wise	4 hr
Apr 20, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	47 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 442 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 522 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 10:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Washington	66 min
Apr 20, 1:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 6 more	53 min
Apr 20, 12:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 39 more	9 hr
Apr 20, 12:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Conway and 29 more	118 min
Apr 20, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 18 more	89 min
Apr 20, 5:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 50 more	53 min
Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead and 22 more	6 hr
Apr 19, 7:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Love, Marshall	55 min
Apr 19, 9:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Love and 3 more	89 min
Apr 19, 10:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall and 2 more	86 min
Apr 19, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 16 more	94 min
Apr 19, 8:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Denton, Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker and 3 more	93 min
Apr 19, 9:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concho, Irion, Runnels, Tom Green	55 min
Apr 19, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crosby and 28 more	5 hr
Apr 19, 10:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brown, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie and 12 more	7 hr
Apr 19, 10:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hood, Parker, Wise	65 min
Apr 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concho, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason, Menard, San Saba and 3 more	92 min
Apr 20, 2:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton and 9 more	119 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.