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Tornado Watch 292

May 19, 20257 counties in Arkansas; 56 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 19, 2025, 12:03 PM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 56 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2025, 12:03 PM CDT (17:03 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 9:17 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 63 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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: 80%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 60%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 80%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	18 min
May 19, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg and 1 more	56 min
May 19, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and 1 more	38 min
May 19, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole	22 min
May 19, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	10 min
May 19, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	50 min
May 19, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner and 1 more	47 min
May 19, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	62 min
May 19, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	36 min
May 19, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Coal, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	49 min
May 19, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	25 min
May 19, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Love, Stephens	42 min
May 19, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc and 2 more	39 min
May 19, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	47 min
May 19, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	40 min
May 19, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	45 min
May 19, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	41 min
May 19, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Stephens	52 min
May 19, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	33 min
May 19, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	45 min
May 19, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	44 min
May 19, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	49 min
May 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	41 min
May 19, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	25 min
May 19, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	3 hr
May 19, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	27 min
May 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	19 min
May 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	49 min
May 19, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	29 min
May 19, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray	43 min
May 19, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	43 min
May 19, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Murray	52 min
May 19, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jefferson	50 min
May 19, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	17 min
May 19, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	3 hr
May 19, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	31 min
May 19, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	43 min
May 19, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, McClain	44 min
May 19, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	25 min
May 19, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Wagoner	38 min
May 19, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers and 3 more	52 min
May 19, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Marshall, Murray and 1 more	50 min
May 19, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	27 min
May 19, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 2 more	48 min
May 19, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	33 min
May 19, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	44 min
May 19, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston and 5 more	39 min
May 19, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	39 min
May 19, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Oklahoma	52 min
May 19, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	52 min
May 19, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	50 min
May 19, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	50 min
May 19, 4:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love, Marshall, Murray	3 hr
May 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	46 min
May 19, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jefferson	50 min
May 19, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	50 min
May 19, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Washington	48 min
May 19, 5:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall, Murray and 1 more	3 hr
May 19, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma	40 min
May 19, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	53 min
May 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Hughes, Johnston and 5 more	49 min
May 19, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
May 19, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes	27 min
May 19, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	25 min
May 19, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	24 min
May 19, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	47 min
May 19, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne	44 min
May 19, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Washington	43 min
May 19, 5:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Coal, Johnston, Marshall, Murray	3 hr
May 19, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Pittsburg	35 min
May 19, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	27 min
May 19, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	28 min
May 19, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	40 min
May 19, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Coal, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 2 more	49 min
May 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	46 min
May 19, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	27 min
May 19, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	52 min
May 19, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	52 min
May 19, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Love, Marshall	34 min
May 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	32 min
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	48 min
May 19, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	42 min
May 19, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Benton	37 min
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	36 min
May 19, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	32 min
May 19, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee and 1 more	42 min
May 19, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage	39 min
May 19, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	52 min
May 19, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg	25 min
May 19, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	33 min
May 19, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	25 min
May 19, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Washington	23 min
May 19, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Washington	52 min
May 19, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian, Washington	51 min
May 19, 6:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Love, Marshall	3 hr
May 19, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	33 min
May 19, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore	31 min
May 19, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	33 min
May 19, 7:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	4 hr
May 19, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Benton, Madison, Washington	30 min
May 19, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sebastian	26 min
May 19, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington	53 min
May 19, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston	3 hr
May 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	44 min
May 19, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	36 min
May 19, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	33 min
May 19, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	49 min
May 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	3 hr
May 19, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	48 min
May 19, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington	32 min
May 19, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Franklin	17 min
May 19, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
May 19, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
May 19, 8:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	3 hr
May 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan	50 min
May 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	28 min
May 19, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	47 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
May 18, 8:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Conway, Cross, Faulkner, Lee, St. Francis, Van Buren and 2 more	88 min
May 19, 10:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Howard, Little River, Polk, Sevier	2 hr
May 19, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 6 more	116 min
May 19, 5:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	114 min
May 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 21 more	94 min
May 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Sebastian	90 min
May 19, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 39 more	7 hr
May 19, 12:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Barton, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Cedar and 9 more	115 min
May 19, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 43 more	9 hr
May 19, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Macon and 6 more	89 min
May 19, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Chariton, Cooper, Grundy, Harrison, Howard and 7 more	6 hr
May 19, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison	2 hr
May 18, 7:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Major, Woods and 1 more	119 min
May 19, 11:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cleveland, Creek, Garvin, Hughes, Kay and 21 more	3 hr
May 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston and 6 more	2 hr
May 19, 3:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Hughes, McIntosh and 9 more	2 hr
May 19, 4:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston and 8 more	93 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.