Tornado Watch Issued For Some Oklahoma Counties

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TULSA, Oklahoma -- Thunderstorms are moving through Eastern Oklahoma Friday, and some are severe. 

The National Weather Center has issued a tornado watch effective through 6 p.m. Friday for portions of Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and Sequoyah counties. In Arkansas, Sebastian and Washington counties are also under the tornado watch.

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Several Oklahoma counties are flash flood alerts through Saturday morning including Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Ottawa, Rogers, Wagoner and Cherokee.

Green Country residents should be prepared for storms and heavy rainfall to continue as additional storms try to form later in the afternoon, according to News On 6 meteorologist Alan Crone.

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"These 'dry line storms' will have the highest severe weather potential by late Friday afternoon and early Friday evening if the atmosphere can recover from the early morning storms," Crone said.

The afternoon high is expected to be in the upper 70s.

Track the storm with WARN Team radar.