Tornado Watch in effect until 9pm for the Four States
JOPLIN, Mo. — The National Weather Service has issued two Tornado Watches for the Four State Region.
Northeast Oklahoma counties (including Delaware, Ottawa, Craig & Mayes) are under the Tornado Watch until 6 pm.
All of southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas, and a portion of southeast Kansas (Cherokee and Crawford) are under a Tornado Watch until 9 pm.
The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of our area in an Enhanced Risk of severe weather (orange), as well as Slight (yellow), and Marginal (green).
Baseball-size hail, damaging thunderstorm winds, and a tornado are possible with the storms this afternoon and evening.
Large, golf ball size hail has already fallen in Grove, Oklahoma (see video).
You can track these storms on our KSN 16/KODE 12 Interactive Radar.
