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Tornado Watch 20
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 6, 2026, 9:53 PM CST for 7 counties in Arkansas; 18 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2026, 9:53 PM CST (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2026, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 60%
- 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 10:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 42 min |
| Mar 6, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 18 min |
| Mar 6, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 36 min |
| Mar 6, 11:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 16 min |
| Mar 6, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 12:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 26 min |
| Mar 7, 3:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston and 3 more | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 3:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc | 40 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 1:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:19 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:24 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 43 more | 96 min |
| Mar 7, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 7, 12:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 7:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Ottawa and 3 more | 92 min |
| Mar 7, 12:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Cotton, Creek, Garvin, Grady and 10 more | 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.