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Tornado Watch 162

April 27, 20266 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 27, 2026, 2:46 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 2026, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2026, 9:51 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Particularly dangerous situation: Yes
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 92 counties

Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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: 80%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 80%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	34 min
Apr 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne, White	41 min
Apr 27, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	49 min
Apr 27, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Perry	64 min
Apr 27, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Carter, Ripley	47 min
Apr 27, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	50 min
Apr 27, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Wayne	60 min
Apr 27, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	43 min
Apr 27, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	41 min
Apr 27, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wayne	41 min
Apr 27, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wayne	34 min
Apr 27, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Perry	55 min
Apr 27, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Hamilton, Wabash, Wayne, White	67 min
Apr 27, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	27 min
Apr 27, 9:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne	34 min
Apr 27, 9:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley	38 min
Apr 27, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	47 min
Apr 27, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay	28 min
Apr 27, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard	28 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 353 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 10:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Washington	94 min
Apr 27, 1:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 6 more	2 hr
Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton	95 min
Apr 27, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll	7 hr
Apr 27, 3:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 44 more	3 hr
Apr 27, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	87 min
Apr 27, 6:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips	115 min
Apr 27, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River, Madison, Miller and 3 more	3 hr
Apr 27, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Calhoun, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Greene and 21 more	6 hr
Apr 27, 7:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Franklin and 24 more	84 min
Apr 27, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 37 more	5 hr
Apr 27, 9:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun	117 min
Apr 27, 10:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 35 more	119 min
Apr 27, 11:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Wabash	8 hr
Apr 27, 11:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair	2 hr
Apr 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more	9 hr
Apr 27, 12:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 15 more	4 hr
Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 5 more	2 hr
Apr 27, 3:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more	92 min
Apr 27, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 20 more	6 hr
Apr 27, 1:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford and 33 more	113 min
Apr 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois and 16 more	2 hr
Apr 26, 7:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McDonald, Newton	65 min
Apr 26, 8:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and 3 more	2 hr
Apr 26, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Carroll, Cass, Clay and 11 more	7 hr
Apr 26, 10:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 18 more	113 min
Apr 27, 12:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Osage and 3 more	55 min
Apr 27, 1:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte	96 min
Apr 27, 3:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clay, Clinton and 13 more	96 min
Apr 27, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 21 more	6 hr
Apr 27, 5:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Cooper, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	91 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.