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Tornado Watch 152
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2026, 5:15 PM CDT for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2026, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 19 min |
| Apr 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 64 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 8:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike, Polk and 2 more | 116 min |
| Apr 25, 9:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 4 more | 119 min |
| Apr 25, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 25, 11:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Union | 89 min |
| Apr 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods, Woodward | 85 min |
| Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Johnston, Marshall and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Garfield, Grant, Hughes and 9 more | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Creek, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cotton, Jefferson | 89 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.