Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 151
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 15, 2001, 2:45 AM CDT for 31 counties in Arkansas; 12 counties in Missouri; Lauderdale County, Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2001, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2001, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Baxter County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Perry County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Lauderdale County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Stone | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 16 min |
| Apr 15, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 37 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Fulton, Marion and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Madison and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Carroll and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon and 31 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
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.