Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 106
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 6, 2003, 2:55 PM CDT for 41 counties in Arkansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2003, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Choctaw County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Delta County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 6, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 28 min |
| Apr 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 24 min |
| Apr 6, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 32 min |
| Apr 6, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 43 min |
| Apr 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 60 min |
| Apr 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 41 min |
| Apr 6, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 39 min |
| Apr 6, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 31 min |
| Apr 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 29 min |
| Apr 6, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 28 min |
| Apr 6, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 28 min |
| Apr 6, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 31 min |
| Apr 6, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy | 51 min |
| Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry | 35 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 20.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden and 27 more | 5 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, 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 5, 6:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Love | 115 min |
| Apr 5, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 14 more | 95 min |
| Apr 5, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Love | 116 min |
| Apr 5, 9:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Love | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan and 54 more | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 51 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 47 more | 96 min |
| Apr 6, 5:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 46 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 9 more | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 9:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 31 more | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 10:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Fisher, Foard and 11 more | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 11:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 31 more | 92 min |
| Apr 6, 3:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Clay and 39 more | 107 min |
| Apr 6, 3:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Clay and 39 more | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 4:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 27 more | 115 min |
| Apr 6, 9:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bosque, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Collin and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk | 117 min |
| Apr 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Collin, Cooke and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Brazos, Cherokee, Delta, Freestone, Grimes and 21 more | 90 min |
| Apr 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.