Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 346

May 24, 200038 counties in Arkansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT for 38 counties in Arkansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 49 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	39 min
May 24, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	52 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	46 min
May 24, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	57 min
May 24, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	57 min
May 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	55 min
May 24, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	42 min
May 24, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	46 min
May 24, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	56 min
May 24, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	66 min
May 24, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	55 min
May 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	50 min
May 24, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	59 min
May 24, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	50 min
May 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence	57 min
May 24, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	28 min
May 24, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene, Randolph	36 min
May 25, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	52 min
May 25, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	52 min
May 25, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	59 min
May 25, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	42 min

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 3 more	6 hr
May 24, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 9 more	5 hr
May 25, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Garfield, Garvin and 21 more	5 hr
May 25, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cimarron	5 hr
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Jackson	5 hr
May 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaver, Harmon, Texas	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.