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Tornado Watch 154

April 20, 20255 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 20, 2025, 12:03 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2025, 12:03 PM CDT (17:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 123 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Linn County, KS, Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Macon County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Red River County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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: 90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
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: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 12:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Miller	14 min
Apr 20, 12:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Cole, Moniteau	43 min
Apr 20, 12:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Miller	16 min
Apr 20, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner	40 min
Apr 20, 12:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Miller, Morgan	6 hr
Apr 20, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	62 min
Apr 20, 1:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Callaway	44 min
Apr 20, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	24 min
Apr 20, 1:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	5 hr
Apr 20, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	48 min
Apr 20, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	McCurtain	33 min
Apr 20, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	45 min
Apr 20, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	28 min
Apr 20, 1:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	41 min
Apr 20, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	66 min
Apr 20, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	62 min
Apr 20, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee	29 min
Apr 20, 2:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	5 hr
Apr 20, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	37 min
Apr 20, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington	44 min
Apr 20, 2:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	24 min
Apr 20, 2:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	36 min
Apr 20, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	66 min
Apr 20, 2:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	6 hr
Apr 20, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton and 2 more	53 min
Apr 20, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford, Madison, Washington	21 min
Apr 20, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry	50 min
Apr 20, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Vernon	48 min
Apr 20, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	30 min
Apr 20, 2:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	20 min
Apr 20, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	57 min
Apr 20, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	57 min
Apr 20, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	17 min
Apr 20, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	51 min
Apr 20, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Polk, Scott, Yell	48 min
Apr 20, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison	54 min
Apr 20, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Chariton, Macon, Randolph	46 min
Apr 20, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Franklin, Madison	54 min
Apr 20, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Johnson, Newton, Pope	50 min
Apr 20, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone, Taney	65 min
Apr 20, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Benton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	65 min
Apr 20, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Pike and 3 more	41 min
Apr 20, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Yell	37 min
Apr 20, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson, Pettis	47 min
Apr 20, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	32 min
Apr 20, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Miller and 2 more	62 min
Apr 20, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Pike and 2 more	44 min
Apr 20, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Saline and 2 more	39 min
Apr 20, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk	20 min
Apr 20, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Ozark, Taney, Webster and 1 more	66 min
Apr 20, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope and 2 more	50 min
Apr 20, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	4 hr
Apr 20, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	44 min
Apr 20, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole, Moniteau	57 min
Apr 20, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Saline	41 min
Apr 20, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Taney	24 min
Apr 20, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Cooper, Pettis	63 min
Apr 20, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Moniteau	37 min
Apr 20, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike	42 min
Apr 20, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper	23 min
Apr 20, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Morgan	11 min
Apr 20, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry and 3 more	49 min
Apr 20, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Stone, Van Buren and 1 more	47 min
Apr 20, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster, Wright	31 min
Apr 20, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Laclede, Webster, Wright	26 min
Apr 20, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway	54 min
Apr 20, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Pope, Searcy and 2 more	52 min
Apr 20, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	66 min
Apr 20, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Morgan and 2 more	66 min
Apr 20, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Texas, Wright	63 min
Apr 20, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry	24 min
Apr 20, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	45 min
Apr 20, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Boone, Moniteau	35 min
Apr 20, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Little River, Miller	47 min
Apr 20, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	29 min
Apr 20, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland	28 min
Apr 20, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Texas, Wright	35 min
Apr 20, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole	17 min
Apr 20, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon, Randolph	34 min
Apr 20, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Laclede, Texas, Wright	21 min
Apr 20, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	30 min
Apr 20, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway	39 min
Apr 20, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring	49 min
Apr 20, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring and 4 more	48 min
Apr 20, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Lonoke and 6 more	45 min
Apr 20, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Monroe, Montgomery, Ralls	45 min
Apr 20, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Monroe, Shelby	41 min
Apr 20, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Marion, Searcy and 3 more	46 min
Apr 20, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Callaway, Montgomery	46 min
Apr 20, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Dent, Howell, Maries, Ozark, Phelps, Pulaski and 2 more	57 min
Apr 20, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	49 min
Apr 20, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LSX	Pike, Ralls	42 min
Apr 20, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk	53 min
Apr 20, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring and 4 more	50 min
Apr 20, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lonoke and 6 more	49 min
Apr 20, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike, Ralls	49 min
Apr 20, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Independence, Izard, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp and 1 more	44 min
Apr 20, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski	38 min
Apr 20, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	53 min
Apr 20, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski, Saline	24 min
Apr 20, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Dent, Howell, Shannon, Texas	48 min
Apr 20, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	34 min
Apr 20, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	39 min
Apr 20, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	52 min
Apr 20, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, White	33 min
Apr 20, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	29 min
Apr 20, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola	62 min
Apr 20, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Izard, Lawrence, Sharp, Stone	54 min
Apr 20, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Randolph, Sharp	51 min
Apr 20, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	16 min
Apr 20, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	37 min
Apr 20, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	46 min
Apr 20, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita	40 min
Apr 20, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	48 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 353 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: 320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 19, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 6 more	6 hr
Apr 20, 1:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 6 more	53 min
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 20, 2:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford	97 min
Apr 20, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene and 10 more	5 hr
Apr 20, 3:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede and 7 more	2 hr
Apr 20, 2:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau and 40 more	115 min
Apr 20, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Clark, Crawford and 28 more	7 hr
Apr 20, 5:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Carter, Clark, Cole and 38 more	95 min
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

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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.