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Tornado Watch 330

June 13, 20264 counties in Arkansas; 4 counties in Missouri; 16 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2026, 6:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas; 4 counties in Missouri; 16 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2026, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2026, 9:39 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 24 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware 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, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Delaware	46 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	41 min
Jun 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	38 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Grant, Kay	49 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Delaware	47 min
Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	27 min
Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	65 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	48 min
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	35 min
Jun 13, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	48 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	28 min
Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	40 min
Jun 13, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Benton	23 min
Jun 13, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kay, Noble	50 min
Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	50 min
Jun 13, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	25 min
Jun 13, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	41 min
Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Noble	25 min
Jun 13, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	43 min
Jun 13, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	26 min
Jun 13, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant, Kay	51 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	62 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -69 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
Jun 13, 12:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi and 2 more	95 min
Jun 13, 1:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 25 more	85 min
Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 20 more	95 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Johnson, Madison, Washington	2 hr
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Henry and 5 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 8:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more	117 min
Jun 13, 9:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Linn and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 13, 11:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Knox and 7 more	84 min
Jun 13, 1:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Cass, Clay and 7 more	116 min
Jun 13, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Henry and 5 more	9 hr
Jun 13, 3:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison	118 min
Jun 13, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	5 hr
Jun 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Holt and 2 more	92 min
Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Texas	95 min
Jun 12, 10:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Woodward	113 min
Jun 13, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	4 hr
Jun 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Harper, Texas	2 hr
Jun 13, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Cimarron, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 7 more	8 hr
Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	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.