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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 828

August 1, 200324 counties in Arkansas; 14 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 1, 2003, 5:40 PM CDT for 24 counties in Arkansas; 14 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 2003, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 38 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	50 min
Aug 1, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	61 min
Aug 1, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	59 min
Aug 1, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	47 min
Aug 1, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	49 min
Aug 1, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	52 min
Aug 1, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	49 min
Aug 1, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	49 min
Aug 1, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	49 min
Aug 1, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	50 min
Aug 1, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	61 min
Aug 1, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	77 min
Aug 1, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	50 min
Aug 1, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	35 min
Aug 1, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	45 min

Discussions around it

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 2:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay	2 hr
Aug 1, 5:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 14 more	53 min
Aug 1, 10:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Kay, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington	2 hr
Aug 1, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Craig, Kay, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington	6 hr
Aug 1, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa	2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.