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Tornado Watch 146
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2026, 5:50 PM CDT for 16 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2026, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2026, 10:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clark County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 19 min |
| Apr 25, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 15 min |
| Apr 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Montgomery, Pike | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 22 min |
| Apr 25, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 35 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Union | 118 min |
| Apr 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Little River, Miller | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Sebastian | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River and 10 more | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 7 hr |
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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.