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Tornado Watch 141

April 24, 20267 counties in Arkansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 24, 2026, 1:55 PM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2026, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 45 counties

Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Polk County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Titus County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain	43 min
Apr 24, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie	46 min
Apr 24, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	41 min
Apr 24, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin	48 min
Apr 24, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	51 min
Apr 24, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin, Murray	41 min
Apr 24, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	51 min
Apr 24, 3:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	51 min
Apr 24, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	40 min
Apr 24, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	42 min
Apr 24, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	40 min
Apr 24, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	38 min
Apr 24, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	49 min
Apr 24, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	42 min
Apr 24, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Murray	33 min
Apr 24, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	59 min
Apr 24, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	40 min
Apr 24, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc	53 min
Apr 24, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	66 min
Apr 24, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	50 min
Apr 24, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	34 min
Apr 24, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	44 min
Apr 24, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg	40 min
Apr 24, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	38 min
Apr 24, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	50 min
Apr 24, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	49 min
Apr 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore	48 min
Apr 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	47 min
Apr 24, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka	37 min
Apr 24, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	35 min
Apr 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	42 min
Apr 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	42 min
Apr 24, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	40 min
Apr 24, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	40 min
Apr 24, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	34 min
Apr 24, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	15 min
Apr 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	25 min
Apr 24, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Johnston, Marshall	48 min
Apr 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	27 min
Apr 24, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Pushmataha	39 min
Apr 24, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka	50 min
Apr 24, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	30 min
Apr 24, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	58 min
Apr 24, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	63 min
Apr 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	45 min
Apr 24, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Johnston	43 min
Apr 24, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	64 min
Apr 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	44 min
Apr 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Bryan	24 min
Apr 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Choctaw	44 min
Apr 24, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Lamar	56 min
Apr 24, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	30 min
Apr 24, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sevier	55 min
Apr 24, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Lamar	54 min
Apr 24, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Stephens	46 min
Apr 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk	24 min
Apr 24, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	61 min
Apr 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	45 min
Apr 24, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike, Polk	40 min
Apr 24, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Franklin, Red River	75 min
Apr 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Delta, Lamar	56 min
Apr 24, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	48 min
Apr 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier	59 min
Apr 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Franklin, Red River, Titus	56 min
Apr 24, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Nevada	42 min
Apr 24, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	40 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 1690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	6 hr
Apr 23, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton	115 min
Apr 24, 2:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more	90 min
Apr 24, 1:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Little River, Sevier	115 min
Apr 24, 2:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	114 min
Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 5 more	3 hr
Apr 23, 8:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Garfield, Kay, Noble, Osage, Pawnee	2 hr
Apr 24, 11:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes and 7 more	115 min
Apr 24, 3:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Coal, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	95 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.