Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 72
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2003, 2:40 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2003, 2:40 PM CST (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2003, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Pope County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Calloway County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Dunklin County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 62 min |
| Mar 25, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 33 min |
| Mar 25, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 26 min |
| Mar 25, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 42 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -639 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 1:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 1:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner, Greene and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Howard, Little River, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross and 19 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Craighead and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:33 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Cooper and 11 more | 3 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.