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Tornado Watch 10
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 19, 2026, 12:20 PM CST for 21 counties in Illinois; 49 counties in Indiana; 48 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2026, 12:20 PM CST (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2026, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 118 counties
Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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
- 40%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
59 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 28 min |
| Feb 19, 2:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Spencer | 28 min |
| Feb 19, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 37 min |
| Feb 19, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette | 32 min |
| Feb 19, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 32 min |
| Feb 19, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Effingham | 24 min |
| Feb 19, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Moultrie, Shelby | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 3:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Effingham, Jasper | 52 min |
| Feb 19, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 33 min |
| Feb 19, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan | 23 min |
| Feb 19, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 29 min |
| Feb 19, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 26 min |
| Feb 19, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 48 min |
| Feb 19, 3:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper | 31 min |
| Feb 19, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Edgar | 41 min |
| Feb 19, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford | 36 min |
| Feb 19, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark | 50 min |
| Feb 19, 4:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford | 23 min |
| Feb 19, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford | 12 min |
| Feb 19, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Sullivan | 29 min |
| Feb 19, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Sullivan | 38 min |
| Feb 19, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford | 12 min |
| Feb 19, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 51 min |
| Feb 19, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford | 17 min |
| Feb 19, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 47 min |
| Feb 19, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 37 min |
| Feb 19, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, Vigo | 43 min |
| Feb 19, 5:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 36 min |
| Feb 19, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Sullivan, Vigo | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan | 31 min |
| Feb 19, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam | 27 min |
| Feb 19, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Morgan | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 38 min |
| Feb 19, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 51 min |
| Feb 19, 5:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe, Owen | 36 min |
| Feb 19, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan | 47 min |
| Feb 19, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 48 min |
| Feb 19, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 6:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 29 min |
| Feb 19, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper | 47 min |
| Feb 19, 6:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Shelby | 39 min |
| Feb 19, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 32 min |
| Feb 19, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry, Rush, Shelby | 39 min |
| Feb 19, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper | 31 min |
| Feb 19, 6:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 43 min |
| Feb 19, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Shelby | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 7:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 28 min |
| Feb 19, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Jasper | 48 min |
| Feb 19, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry | 24 min |
| Feb 19, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Morgan | 31 min |
| Feb 19, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 38 min |
| Feb 19, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 51 min |
| Feb 19, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson | 37 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 10:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 5 more | 91 min |
| Feb 19, 11:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 38 more | 116 min |
| Feb 19, 2:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jefferson, Madison, Marion and 5 more | 84 min |
| Feb 19, 9:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Fulton and 10 more | 87 min |
| Feb 19, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Monroe, Owen | 94 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.