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Tornado Watch 155
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2026, 9:38 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2026, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2026, 3:44 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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
- 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 25 min |
| Apr 27, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 22 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson and 13 more | 96 min |
| Apr 27, 3:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Wyandotte | 96 min |
| Apr 27, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 2 more | 95 min |
| Apr 27, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage and 2 more | 94 min |
| Apr 27, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.