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Tornado Watch 40

March 10, 20264 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 10, 2026, 10:18 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2026, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2026, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 80 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Adair 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, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	40 min
Mar 10, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	36 min
Mar 10, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	28 min
Mar 10, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner	31 min
Mar 10, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes	27 min
Mar 10, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	39 min
Mar 10, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	43 min
Mar 10, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	53 min
Mar 10, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	18 min
Mar 11, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair, Vernon	39 min
Mar 11, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	36 min
Mar 11, 12:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	31 min
Mar 11, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, St. Clair	37 min
Mar 11, 12:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sevier	20 min
Mar 11, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	8 min
Mar 11, 12:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	32 min
Mar 11, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	45 min
Mar 11, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	45 min
Mar 11, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington	42 min
Mar 11, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier	25 min
Mar 11, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	51 min
Mar 11, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Miller, Pulaski	41 min
Mar 11, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	13 min
Mar 11, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Madison, Washington	51 min
Mar 11, 1:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	20 min
Mar 11, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	34 min
Mar 11, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison	39 min
Mar 11, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope	53 min
Mar 11, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	50 min
Mar 11, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	31 min
Mar 11, 2:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Perry, Pope, Yell	48 min
Mar 11, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Newton and 1 more	34 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 828 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 9.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 9:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	3 hr
Mar 11, 2:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Dallas and 20 more	85 min
Mar 11, 3:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita	97 min
Mar 11, 7:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Desha and 8 more	2 hr
Mar 11, 10:15 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	3 hr
Mar 10, 7:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Coffey, Greenwood, Harper, Kingman and 4 more	2 hr
Mar 10, 8:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Elk, Franklin and 6 more	83 min
Mar 11, 1:14 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Gasconade and 10 more	91 min
Mar 11, 1:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Pike	91 min
Mar 10, 8:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Love and 3 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.