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Tornado Watch 197
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2025, 9:50 AM CDT for 21 counties in Arkansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2025, 9:50 AM CDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 54 counties
Clark County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
63 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 10:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 22 min |
| Apr 30, 10:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 11:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 18 min |
| Apr 30, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 11:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 21 min |
| Apr 30, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 11:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 7 min |
| Apr 30, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 12 min |
| Apr 30, 12:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin, Grayson, Hunt | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 12:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 12:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 11 min |
| Apr 30, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 14 min |
| Apr 30, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Miller | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike, Polk | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 5 more | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike, Polk | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 9 min |
| Apr 30, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Scott, Yell | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 18 min |
| Apr 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Hill, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 5 more | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Ouachita, Pike | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Scott, Yell | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott, Yell | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline, Yell | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Smith | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Van Buren, Yell | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline and 2 more | 51 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 11:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more | 84 min |
| Apr 30, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Union | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Chicot, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 17 more | 92 min |
| Apr 29, 9:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Love and 3 more | 96 min |
| Apr 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Tillman | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 9 more | 96 min |
| Apr 30, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 17 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 9:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Marshall, Pushmataha | 113 min |
| Apr 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Cherokee, Coryell and 22 more | 118 min |
| Apr 30, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 20 more | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bexar, Caldwell, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe and 4 more | 89 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.