Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2003, 5:20 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2003, 5:20 PM CST (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2003, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Calloway County, KY, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica 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, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 46 min |
| Mar 25, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 26 min |
| Mar 25, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 61 min |
| Mar 25, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 59 min |
| Mar 25, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 38 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 15 more | 5 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, 5:39 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
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 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.