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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 161

April 7, 20005 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 7, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 68 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	50 min
Apr 7, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	63 min
Apr 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	47 min
Apr 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River	67 min
Apr 7, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	48 min
Apr 7, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	51 min
Apr 7, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	64 min
Apr 7, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	51 min
Apr 7, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	61 min
Apr 7, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	50 min
Apr 7, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	64 min
Apr 7, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	50 min
Apr 7, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	51 min
Apr 7, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	50 min
Apr 7, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	33 min
Apr 7, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	67 min
Apr 7, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	41 min
Apr 7, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland	50 min
Apr 7, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	47 min
Apr 7, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	18 min
Apr 7, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	28 min
Apr 7, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	35 min
Apr 7, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	35 min
Apr 7, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	33 min
Apr 7, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	48 min
Apr 7, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	17 min
Apr 7, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	50 min
Apr 7, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tunica	35 min
Apr 7, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln	49 min
Apr 7, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	64 min
Apr 7, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	42 min
Apr 7, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tate	47 min

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -661 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton and 13 more	6 hr
Apr 7, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Mississippi	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.