Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 296
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Fulton County, KY, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 38 min |
| May 13, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner and 21 more | 4 hr |
| May 13, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Johnson, Unicoi | 5 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.