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Tornado Watch 392

June 25, 202622 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 25, 2026, 3:03 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2026, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2026, 11:13 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 53 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	62 min
Jun 25, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	56 min
Jun 25, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Beaver	67 min
Jun 25, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	49 min
Jun 25, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	46 min
Jun 25, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	39 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	60 min
Jun 25, 5:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	2 hr
Jun 25, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Harper	51 min
Jun 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	34 min
Jun 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver	14 min
Jun 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	39 min
Jun 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	14 min
Jun 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	45 min
Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	20 min
Jun 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	49 min
Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	32 min
Jun 25, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis	17 min
Jun 25, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills, Woodward	63 min
Jun 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell	39 min
Jun 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major, Woodward	27 min
Jun 25, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	52 min
Jun 25, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	49 min
Jun 25, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Roger Mills	50 min
Jun 25, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Washita	47 min
Jun 25, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher and 1 more	51 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 11 more	7 hr
Jun 24, 8:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Norton, Phillips	62 min
Jun 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Logan, Norton, Phillips and 5 more	64 min
Jun 25, 7:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more	118 min
Jun 25, 12:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more	3 hr
Jun 25, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant and 8 more	3 hr
Jun 25, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Cimarron, Custer, Greer, Harmon and 4 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more	85 min
Jun 25, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Woodward	68 min
Jun 25, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	LeFlore, Sequoyah	2 hr
Jun 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major and 3 more	90 min

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.