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Tornado Watch 86

April 1, 202610 counties in Kansas; 48 counties in Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 1, 2026, 4:41 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 48 counties in Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2026, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 76 counties

Barber County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	39 min
Apr 1, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	53 min
Apr 1, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	37 min
Apr 1, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	30 min
Apr 1, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	52 min
Apr 1, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	47 min
Apr 1, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	46 min
Apr 1, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble	45 min
Apr 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman and 1 more	42 min
Apr 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	42 min
Apr 1, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	48 min
Apr 1, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	43 min
Apr 1, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Roger Mills, Washita	29 min
Apr 1, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	King	31 min
Apr 1, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Hardeman, Knox	42 min
Apr 1, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	41 min
Apr 1, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more	38 min
Apr 1, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne	48 min
Apr 1, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	16 min
Apr 1, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	15 min
Apr 1, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Tillman	53 min
Apr 1, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita	51 min
Apr 1, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne	44 min
Apr 1, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger	52 min
Apr 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman, Washita	50 min
Apr 1, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	33 min
Apr 1, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Jones	60 min
Apr 1, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	44 min
Apr 1, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Tillman	26 min
Apr 1, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	52 min
Apr 1, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Kingfisher, Washita	51 min
Apr 1, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	49 min
Apr 1, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	25 min
Apr 1, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	26 min
Apr 1, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Knox	19 min
Apr 1, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady	34 min
Apr 1, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger	49 min
Apr 1, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	44 min
Apr 1, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	28 min
Apr 1, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Garfield, Grady, Kingfisher	48 min
Apr 1, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	44 min
Apr 1, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger	39 min
Apr 1, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	40 min
Apr 1, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	52 min
Apr 1, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	44 min
Apr 1, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, McClain and 1 more	53 min
Apr 1, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble	15 min
Apr 1, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	42 min
Apr 1, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Washington	52 min
Apr 1, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman	48 min
Apr 1, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	56 min
Apr 1, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	18 min
Apr 1, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	39 min
Apr 1, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	42 min
Apr 1, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain	25 min
Apr 1, 10:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma	113 min
Apr 1, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	40 min
Apr 1, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	40 min
Apr 1, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	51 min
Apr 1, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	27 min
Apr 1, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	16 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -436 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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
Apr 1, 3:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Harper, Kingman, Sumner	96 min
Apr 1, 3:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford and 7 more	113 min
Apr 1, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn, Miami	7 hr
Apr 1, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 1, 5:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock and 14 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.