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Tornado Watch 194

April 29, 202515 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 29, 2025, 6:25 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2025, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2025, 12:56 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 32 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger	43 min
Apr 29, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	52 min
Apr 29, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	57 min
Apr 29, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	50 min
Apr 29, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	47 min
Apr 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	21 min
Apr 29, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	67 min
Apr 29, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	17 min
Apr 29, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cotton	38 min
Apr 29, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	51 min
Apr 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	50 min
Apr 29, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	28 min
Apr 29, 8:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	4 hr
Apr 29, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cotton	26 min
Apr 29, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	39 min
Apr 29, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	24 min
Apr 29, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cotton	21 min
Apr 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cotton	33 min
Apr 29, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	47 min
Apr 29, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	25 min
Apr 29, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson	36 min
Apr 29, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	49 min
Apr 29, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	31 min
Apr 29, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	73 min
Apr 29, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens	33 min
Apr 29, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	46 min
Apr 29, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	28 min
Apr 29, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	49 min
Apr 29, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 2 more	3 hr
Apr 29, 9:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	4 hr
Apr 29, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Comanche, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, Love and 3 more	46 min
Apr 29, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	3 hr
Apr 29, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	49 min
Apr 29, 9:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Murray, Pottawatomie	2 hr
Apr 29, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	60 min
Apr 29, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton	37 min
Apr 29, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor	44 min
Apr 29, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	40 min
Apr 29, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	48 min
Apr 29, 11:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, Pontotoc and 2 more	3 hr
Apr 29, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita, Wilbarger	44 min
Apr 29, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Knox	38 min
Apr 29, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	47 min
Apr 29, 11:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Love	3 hr
Apr 30, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	56 min
Apr 30, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	38 min
Apr 30, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Wilbarger	50 min
Apr 30, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor	44 min
Apr 30, 12:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger	3 hr
Apr 30, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	46 min
Apr 30, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	30 min
Apr 30, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	30 min
Apr 30, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	49 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 8:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa	65 min
Apr 29, 12:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Craig, Creek, Custer, Delaware and 22 more	115 min
Apr 29, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 38 more	7 hr
Apr 29, 3:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman	114 min
Apr 29, 5:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 24 more	3 hr
Apr 29, 8:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Delaware, Ottawa	90 min
Apr 29, 1:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman	2 hr
Apr 29, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Garvin, Grady and 12 more	9 hr
Apr 29, 3:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes and 18 more	115 min
Apr 29, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 5 more	95 min
Apr 28, 7:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Foard, Haskell, Jones, Knox, Shackelford and 3 more	92 min
Apr 28, 11:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 6 more	57 min
Apr 29, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dickens, Foard, Garza, Kent, King, Knox and 1 more	95 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.