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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 102

April 6, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 6, 2003, 11:05 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2003, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 73 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union 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, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski, White	38 min
Apr 6, 11:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	39 min
Apr 6, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Tippah	38 min
Apr 6, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross	43 min
Apr 6, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	47 min
Apr 6, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby, Tipton	43 min
Apr 6, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	50 min
Apr 6, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene	45 min
Apr 6, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	45 min
Apr 6, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dunklin	28 min
Apr 6, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	36 min
Apr 6, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	37 min
Apr 6, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	31 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 535 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 736 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 7:38 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Lafayette and 3 more	97 min
Apr 6, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Drew and 6 more	5 hr
Apr 6, 8:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 21 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 9:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 22 more	5 hr
Apr 6, 10:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Jefferson and 4 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 10:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 21 more	55 min
Apr 6, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Drew and 6 more	6 hr
Apr 6, 12:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Craighead and 46 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 2:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Howard and 16 more	57 min
Apr 6, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 35 more	5 hr
Apr 6, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	5 hr
Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	115 min
Apr 6, 6:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	97 min
Apr 6, 12:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Claiborne, Issaquena, Warren	117 min
Apr 6, 12:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Attala, Choctaw, Holmes, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake and 9 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Choctaw, Clarke, Jasper, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale and 7 more	5 hr
Apr 6, 2:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 6, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 29 more	6 hr
Apr 6, 9:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson and 18 more	116 min
Apr 6, 1:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee and 33 more	113 min
Apr 6, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb and 28 more	6 hr
Apr 6, 3:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb and 18 more	118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003

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.