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Tornado Watch 148

April 25, 202621 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2026, 10:45 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 2026, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2026, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 21 counties

Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	60 min
Apr 25, 11:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 25, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	50 min
Apr 25, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	46 min
Apr 25, 11:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	4 hr
Apr 25, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	50 min
Apr 25, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	31 min
Apr 26, 12:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 26, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	45 min
Apr 26, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	54 min
Apr 26, 12:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	4 hr
Apr 26, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	64 min
Apr 26, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas	62 min
Apr 26, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant	55 min
Apr 26, 1:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Apr 26, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman	64 min
Apr 26, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	20 min
Apr 26, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	21 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 3860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.3
Supercell composite: 17.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 8:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Denton, Jack, Wise	57 min
Apr 25, 9:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 7 more	119 min
Apr 25, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 7 more	8 hr
Apr 25, 10:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson, Hopkins and 10 more	89 min
Apr 25, 11:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Red River and 1 more	2 hr
Apr 26, 1:15 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman	60 min
Apr 26, 8:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camp, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 2 more	87 min
Apr 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Throckmorton, Wichita, Young	2 hr
Apr 26, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Jack, Montague and 3 more	6 hr
Apr 26, 5:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Montague, Wichita	89 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.