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Tornado Watch 144

April 25, 202637 counties in Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2026, 3:52 PM CDT for 37 counties in Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 2026, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 64 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek 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, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 90%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	39 min
Apr 25, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson	53 min
Apr 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	50 min
Apr 25, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	27 min
Apr 25, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Seminole	53 min
Apr 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Wichita	31 min
Apr 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore	52 min
Apr 25, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Pontotoc, Seminole	40 min
Apr 25, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	40 min
Apr 25, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	39 min
Apr 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Wichita	4 hr
Apr 25, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	50 min
Apr 25, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	22 min
Apr 25, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	48 min
Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	45 min
Apr 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	25 min
Apr 25, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay	49 min
Apr 25, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Stephens	29 min
Apr 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah	42 min
Apr 25, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	53 min
Apr 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	3 hr
Apr 25, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	44 min
Apr 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Coal, Pontotoc	39 min
Apr 25, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	52 min
Apr 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	49 min
Apr 25, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	44 min
Apr 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague	51 min
Apr 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Clay	45 min
Apr 25, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	26 min
Apr 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, McClain, Stephens	26 min
Apr 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Pontotoc	39 min
Apr 25, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady, Stephens	18 min
Apr 25, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Clay	3 hr
Apr 25, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Clay	19 min
Apr 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	47 min
Apr 25, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	57 min
Apr 25, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	41 min
Apr 25, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	52 min
Apr 25, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal	49 min
Apr 25, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston	44 min
Apr 25, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Stephens	42 min
Apr 25, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	42 min
Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston	39 min
Apr 25, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Grady, Stephens	3 hr
Apr 25, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Murray	52 min
Apr 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Murray, Pontotoc	5 hr
Apr 25, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	LeFlore	42 min
Apr 25, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	55 min
Apr 25, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	25 min
Apr 25, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garvin	10 min
Apr 25, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	17 min
Apr 25, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	3 hr
Apr 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston	44 min
Apr 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	59 min
Apr 25, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	38 min
Apr 25, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garvin, Murray	52 min
Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague, Wise	48 min
Apr 25, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Seminole	44 min
Apr 25, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Johnston	24 min
Apr 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	40 min
Apr 25, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Wise	13 min
Apr 25, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Johnston	54 min
Apr 25, 8:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Johnston	5 hr
Apr 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	3 hr
Apr 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	50 min
Apr 25, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	62 min
Apr 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Parker, Wise	42 min
Apr 25, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	52 min
Apr 25, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker	52 min
Apr 25, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	64 min
Apr 25, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Parker, Tarrant, Wise	55 min
Apr 25, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	38 min
Apr 25, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	18 min
Apr 25, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	60 min
Apr 25, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	3 hr
Apr 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	20 min
Apr 25, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	35 min
Apr 25, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	60 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 2880 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 5.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 1:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 5 more	2 hr
Apr 25, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 9 more	6 hr
Apr 25, 3:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 25 more	86 min
Apr 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington	2 hr
Apr 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	LeFlore, McCurtain	65 min
Apr 25, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, LeFlore and 11 more	7 hr
Apr 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 10 more	87 min
Apr 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta, Franklin and 17 more	2 hr
Apr 24, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 20 more	7 hr
Apr 24, 11:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion and 7 more	2 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.