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Tornado Watch 176
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2025, 4:42 PM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; Bowie County, Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2025, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 24 counties
Clark County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 78 min |
| Apr 26, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 50 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 1323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 26, 2:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Pike and 2 more | 115 min |
| Apr 26, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Montgomery, Nevada and 4 more | 87 min |
| Apr 26, 4:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 11 more | 116 min |
| Apr 25, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Culberson, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos and 3 more | 119 min |
| Apr 25, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Castro, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Parmer and 3 more | 111 min |
| Apr 26, 3:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Gaines | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Loving, Midland and 7 more | 89 min |
| Apr 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crane, Ector, Loving, Midland, Pecos, Reeves and 3 more | 4 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.