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Tornado Watch 96

April 2, 20257 counties in Arkansas; 23 counties in Missouri; 14 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2025, 5:20 AM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 23 counties in Missouri; 14 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2025, 5:20 AM CDT (10:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 44 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:23 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: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more	49 min
Apr 2, 6:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 4 more	46 min
Apr 2, 6:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Vernon	50 min
Apr 2, 6:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa and 1 more	57 min
Apr 2, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	63 min
Apr 2, 7:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	29 min
Apr 2, 7:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	43 min
Apr 2, 7:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 4 more	39 min
Apr 2, 7:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SGF	St. Clair, Vernon	36 min
Apr 2, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	48 min
Apr 2, 7:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	47 min
Apr 2, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 4 more	46 min
Apr 2, 8:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Jasper, McDonald, Newton	39 min
Apr 2, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	31 min
Apr 2, 8:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	34 min
Apr 2, 8:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	27 min
Apr 2, 8:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	St. Clair	32 min
Apr 2, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	40 min
Apr 2, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 4 more	27 min
Apr 2, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Greene and 6 more	60 min
Apr 2, 8:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade	28 min
Apr 2, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Morgan, Polk	48 min
Apr 2, 9:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	48 min
Apr 2, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	45 min
Apr 2, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Miller, Pulaski	46 min
Apr 2, 10:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	42 min
Apr 2, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian	45 min
Apr 2, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Stone, Taney	45 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 9 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 604 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 4:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Washington	2 hr
Apr 2, 6:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton	2 hr
Apr 2, 8:47 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 20 more	9 hr
Apr 2, 10:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller	117 min
Apr 2, 11:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 17 more	96 min
Apr 2, 12:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 6 more	114 min
Apr 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Conway, Franklin, Fulton, Garland and 13 more	94 min
Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead and 25 more	9 hr
Apr 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Little River, Miller	117 min
Apr 2, 3:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crittenden, Mississippi	2 hr
Apr 2, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more	7 hr
Apr 2, 5:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 30 more	115 min
Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 8 more	93 min
Apr 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 8 more	10 hr
Apr 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison	64 min
Apr 1, 11:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Holt	117 min
Apr 2, 1:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 21 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 2:28 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 25 more	8 hr
Apr 2, 7:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 19 more	118 min
Apr 2, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Reynolds, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois and 2 more	3 hr
Apr 1, 8:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Lincoln and 4 more	53 min
Apr 2, 2:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 36 more	118 min
Apr 2, 2:46 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal and 40 more	6 hr

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.