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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 356

June 3, 20014 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2001, 9:30 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2001, 9:30 AM CDT (14:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2001, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 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, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Saline County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 9:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Vernon51 min
Jun 3, 9:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata53 min
Jun 3, 10:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade43 min
Jun 3, 10:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFCherokee, Crawford6 hr
Jun 3, 11:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFDade6 hr
Jun 3, 11:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton40 min
Jun 3, 12:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMcDonald4 hr
Jun 3, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade32 min
Jun 3, 12:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFGreene, Lawrence47 min

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 38 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2001-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2001-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Fulton and 8 more5 hr
Jun 2, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens5 hr
Jun 3, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk and 6 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.