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Tornado Watch 87
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 1, 2026, 6:01 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2026, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 41 min |
| Apr 1, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 29 min |
| Apr 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 11:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 3 hr |
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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Labette and 4 more | 7 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.