Weather Alerts For Hennepin, OK

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Johnston, northwestern Love, southeastern Carter, northwestern Marshall and southeastern Murray Counties through 645 PM CDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 620 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 7 miles southwest of Mill Creek to 9 miles northeast of Rubottom. Movement was northeast at 55 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Wind gusts of 40 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Ardmore, Tishomingo, Lone Grove, Dickson, Mannsville, Springer, Ravia, Mill Creek, Gene Autry, Leon, Overbrook, Rubottom, Reagan, Lake Murray, Connerville, Russett, Burneyville, and Pontotoc. ISSUED AT Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Norman OK HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor NOAA Weather Radio, local radio stations or available television stations for additional information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Carter OK, Johnston OK, Love OK, Marshall OK, Murray OK

# HEADLINE -------------------- # SUMMARY -------------------- - Tornado Watch for portions of Far Northwest Arkansas Southeast Kansas Southwest Missouri Central and Eastern Oklahoma - Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 230 PM until 900 PM CDT. - Primary threats include... A couple tornadoes possible Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5 inches in diameter possible Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible # DETAILS -------------------- SUMMARY - Supercells should pose a threat for mainly large hail initially, with peak hailstones up to 1.5-2.5 inches in diameter. Scattered damaging winds will be possible with any thunderstorms that can form into one or more clusters through the evening. The threat for a couple of tornadoes should also gradually increase this evening, especially for any convection that can remain at least semi-discrete. - The tornado watch area is approximately along and 65 statute miles east and west of a line from 60 miles north of Joplin MO to 35 miles south southwest of Ardmore OK. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1). AVIATION Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector 23035. ISSUED AT The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a ISSUED BY 442 PM CDT Wed Apr 15 2026 HEADER Watch county notification for watches 121/123 | National Weather Service Norman OK # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings.

Closest strike: 4.32 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN/CENTRAL PLAINS INTO THE MIDWEST/OHIO VALLEY AND SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms posing a risk for large to very large hail, damaging winds, and perhaps a few tornadoes will be possible across parts of the southern/central Plains into the Midwest/Ohio Valley and southern Great Lakes this afternoon and evening. Mid MS Valley through the Ozarks into the Southern Plains Recent surface analysis places a low in the NE/IA/MO border intersection vicinity, with a dry line extending southwestward from this low through eastern KS, western OK, and northwest TX. As mentioned in MCD #448, the elevated supercell ongoing across central IA could begin to interact with an environment more supportive of surface-based storms. If a transition to surface-based is realized, an increased potential for damaging gusts and a tornado will exist. New development is also beginning across central IA, along the outflow extending southwestward for this supercell. Hail remains the primary risk across the region, both with the ongoing supercell and any new development along its outflow. Increasing thunderstorm coverage is still expected tonight along the dryline as it shifts eastward, beginning across northwest TX and central OK now before expanding northward into MO, and potentially southwestward into more of southwest TX later. Large hail remains the primary threat with this initially more cellular activity. Some very large hail (i.e. 2"+ in diameter) is possible. Over time, storm interactions and/or upscale growth is anticipated, with a trend towards a threat for more damaging gusts. Tornado threat remains low, largely due weakness in the low to mid-level flow and convective mode issues. However, some modest strengthening of the low-level flow should exist this afternoon and evening from eastern OK into the mid MS Valley, supporting a threat for a few tornadoes with both supercells and embedded within clusters. OH Valley Severe Thunderstorm Watch #120 is currently ongoing from far southeast Lower MI across northern OH into far northwest PA. Here, a mix of clusters and supercells pose a threat for scattered damaging winds and large hail as they spread quickly east-northeastward this afternoon and evening. A tornado or two is also possible.