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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 463

June 2, 200328 counties in Arkansas; 8 counties in Mississippi; 8 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2003, 1:15 PM CDT for 28 counties in Arkansas; 8 counties in Mississippi; 8 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2003, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Grant County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette 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, Union County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Bolivar County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Phillips45 min
Jun 2, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha, Drew, Lincoln43 min
Jun 2, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha, Drew32 min
Jun 2, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANBolivar, Sunflower44 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola38 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 168 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
1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 12:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more63 min
Jun 2, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Polk, Scott and 2 more5 hr
Jun 2, 2:53 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Crawford, Franklin, Polk, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more2 hr
Jun 2, 12:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Jefferson and 6 more2 hr
Jun 2, 2:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 7 more113 min
Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrittenden, Desha, Lee, Phillips2 hr
Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChicot2 hr
Jun 2, 5:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 5 more119 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 13 more6 hr
Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 20 more5 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.