Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 835
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 4, 2003, 2:40 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2003, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 69 counties
Baxter County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Fulton County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Wright County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett 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, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 29 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Johnson, Madison and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 44 more | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cedar and 26 more | 94 min |
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.