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Tornado Watch 618
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 23, 2025, 3:06 PM CDT for 20 counties in Arkansas; 15 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2025, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 35 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
45 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Searcy, Stone | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 53 min |
| Sep 23, 3:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 24 min |
| Sep 23, 3:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 40 min |
| Sep 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren | 51 min |
| Sep 23, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 28 min |
| Sep 23, 4:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 66 min |
| Sep 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| Sep 23, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren | 47 min |
| Sep 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Pope, Van Buren | 42 min |
| Sep 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 50 min |
| Sep 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 49 min |
| Sep 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 42 min |
| Sep 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 40 min |
| Sep 23, 5:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 46 min |
| Sep 23, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope, Van Buren | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 46 min |
| Sep 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 60 min |
| Sep 23, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 41 min |
| Sep 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Sep 23, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 41 min |
| Sep 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 34 min |
| Sep 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 48 min |
| Sep 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 48 min |
| Sep 23, 8:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 116 min |
| Sep 23, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 42 min |
| Sep 23, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 43 min |
| Sep 23, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 20 min |
| Sep 23, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 2 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1673 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 1:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 11 more | 119 min |
| Sep 23, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada, Polk, Sevier | 9 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Polk and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 7:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Harper | 117 min |
| Sep 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Grant, Harper, Woods | 113 min |
| Sep 23, 1:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble and 3 more | 97 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.