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Tornado Watch 92
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2026, 2:20 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2026, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 50 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Lee County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Warren County, IL, Doniphan County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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
- 20%
- 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Nodaway | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 11 min |
| Apr 3, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 41 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Hancock and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Ford, Fulton and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Ford, Fulton, Iroquois, Knox, Livingston and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 115 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.