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Tornado Watch 121

April 15, 20268 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Missouri; 47 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 15, 2026, 2:31 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Missouri; 47 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 2026, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2026, 10:57 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 71 counties

Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston 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, 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), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
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: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	39 min
Apr 15, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	45 min
Apr 15, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Allen, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	45 min
Apr 15, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	47 min
Apr 15, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	39 min
Apr 15, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Bourbon	44 min
Apr 15, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	41 min
Apr 15, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	38 min
Apr 15, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	16 min
Apr 15, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	35 min
Apr 15, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	34 min
Apr 15, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	53 min
Apr 15, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson	52 min
Apr 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	51 min
Apr 15, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	49 min
Apr 15, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	20 min
Apr 15, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	16 min
Apr 15, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	36 min
Apr 15, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Nowata, Washington	38 min
Apr 15, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	47 min
Apr 15, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cherokee	44 min
Apr 15, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	12 min
Apr 15, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	23 min
Apr 15, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	35 min
Apr 15, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	52 min
Apr 15, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper	36 min
Apr 15, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	13 min
Apr 15, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr
Apr 15, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	40 min
Apr 15, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	45 min
Apr 15, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	68 min
Apr 15, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair, Vernon	66 min
Apr 15, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Hickory, Polk	47 min
Apr 15, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	14 min
Apr 15, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	St. Clair	44 min
Apr 15, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	42 min
Apr 15, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Carter, Coal, Hughes, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more	48 min
Apr 15, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Love	47 min
Apr 15, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	42 min
Apr 15, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, St. Clair	12 min
Apr 15, 6:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter	3 hr
Apr 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Polk	45 min
Apr 15, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	28 min
Apr 15, 7:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Polk	6 hr
Apr 15, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	39 min
Apr 15, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc	50 min
Apr 15, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray	3 hr
Apr 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	40 min
Apr 15, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	37 min
Apr 15, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	11 min
Apr 15, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	51 min
Apr 15, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	14 min
Apr 15, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	42 min
Apr 15, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	41 min
Apr 15, 8:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	3 hr
Apr 15, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	46 min
Apr 15, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	39 min
Apr 15, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk	59 min
Apr 15, 10:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr
Apr 15, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	32 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 7:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington	2 hr
Apr 14, 7:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	97 min
Apr 14, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more	4 hr
Apr 14, 11:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Washington	84 min
Apr 15, 2:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey and 18 more	2 hr
Apr 15, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Johnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte	6 hr
Apr 15, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	65 min
Apr 15, 5:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford, Labette	94 min
Apr 14, 10:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, McDonald and 2 more	85 min
Apr 14, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barry, McDonald, Newton, Stone	3 hr
Apr 15, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Bates, Benton, Boone, Caldwell and 37 more	2 hr
Apr 15, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Crawford and 30 more	4 hr
Apr 14, 9:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Delaware, Garvin, Hughes and 12 more	29 min
Apr 14, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Cleveland, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 19 more	5 hr
Apr 15, 1:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 26 more	83 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.