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Tornado Watch 171

April 28, 202614 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 28, 2026, 1:09 PM CDT for 14 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2026, 1:09 PM CDT (18:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 50 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Archer County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 95%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 95%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	47 min
Apr 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	45 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc	50 min
Apr 28, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	48 min
Apr 28, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	51 min
Apr 28, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	37 min
Apr 28, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garvin, Hughes, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole	46 min
Apr 28, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Coal, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	45 min
Apr 28, 2:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc	42 min
Apr 28, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	22 min
Apr 28, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	44 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	73 min
Apr 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Montague, Wise	25 min
Apr 28, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	67 min
Apr 28, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole	48 min
Apr 28, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay	30 min
Apr 28, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Coal, Johnston	44 min
Apr 28, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague, Wise	23 min
Apr 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc	91 min
Apr 28, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	44 min
Apr 28, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	40 min
Apr 28, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	24 min
Apr 28, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	38 min
Apr 28, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Young	67 min
Apr 28, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	65 min
Apr 28, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	47 min
Apr 28, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Bryan, Johnston, Love, Marshall	28 min
Apr 28, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	30 min
Apr 28, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Wise, Young	53 min
Apr 28, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	72 min
Apr 28, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	48 min
Apr 28, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Parker	46 min
Apr 28, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker	27 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker	31 min
Apr 28, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	30 min
Apr 28, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	56 min
Apr 28, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker	42 min
Apr 28, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Johnson	25 min
Apr 28, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Johnson	45 min
Apr 28, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Johnson	26 min
Apr 28, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	52 min
Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, Johnson	48 min
Apr 28, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Johnson	34 min
Apr 28, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill	24 min
Apr 28, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	44 min
Apr 28, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hill	33 min
Apr 28, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	67 min
Apr 28, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	55 min
Apr 28, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Freestone, Hill, Limestone, Navarro	81 min
Apr 28, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 3408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 4:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 10 more	3 hr
Apr 28, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 16 more	6 hr
Apr 28, 7:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Garvin and 8 more	119 min
Apr 28, 9:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 14 more	117 min
Apr 28, 10:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Mayes, Muskogee and 3 more	119 min
Apr 28, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh and 13 more	9 hr
Apr 28, 10:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 2 more	8 hr
Apr 28, 12:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jefferson, Love, Marshall	113 min
Apr 28, 1:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 5 more	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Jefferson and 5 more	94 min
Apr 28, 3:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 1 more	117 min
Apr 28, 4:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	87 min
Apr 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	McCurtain	7 hr
Apr 28, 5:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McCurtain	113 min
Apr 27, 8:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins and 10 more	115 min
Apr 28, 4:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker and 2 more	85 min
Apr 28, 6:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Val Verde	2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.