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Tornado Watch 182

April 28, 202529 counties in Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 28, 2025, 3:58 PM CDT for 29 counties in Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2025, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 64 counties

Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	45 min
Apr 28, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	47 min
Apr 28, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Sterling	39 min
Apr 28, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson	52 min
Apr 28, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	38 min
Apr 28, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Sterling	40 min
Apr 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Sterling	32 min
Apr 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Sterling	46 min
Apr 28, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	50 min
Apr 28, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Kent, King, Stonewall	22 min
Apr 28, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	38 min
Apr 28, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	52 min
Apr 28, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	King	34 min
Apr 28, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Foard, Knox	41 min
Apr 28, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	19 min
Apr 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman	13 min
Apr 28, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	45 min
Apr 28, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Knox	44 min
Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	11 min
Apr 28, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	51 min
Apr 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson	41 min
Apr 28, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman	47 min
Apr 28, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Jackson	116 min
Apr 28, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	38 min
Apr 28, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	42 min
Apr 28, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	52 min
Apr 28, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	46 min
Apr 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa	27 min
Apr 28, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	35 min
Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 28, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland, Reagan, Upton	52 min
Apr 28, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita	37 min
Apr 28, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	45 min
Apr 28, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	31 min
Apr 28, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	26 min
Apr 28, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	48 min
Apr 28, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Grady	29 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 256 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: 1731 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 3:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 20 more	2 hr
Apr 28, 6:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	79 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.