Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2003
Tornado Watch 371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 14, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Choctaw County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 67 min |
| May 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 4 hr |
| May 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 39 min |
| May 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pike | 95 min |
| May 14, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 57 min |
| May 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 63 min |
| May 14, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 64 min |
| May 14, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 56 min |
| May 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 58 min |
| May 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 14, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 58 min |
| May 14, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 54 min |
| May 14, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 62 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 141928
SEL1
SPC WW 141930
ARZ000-LAZ000-OKZ000-TXZ000-150100-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 371
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
230 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
NORTHERN LOUISIANA
EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHEAST TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 230 PM UNTIL
800 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 60 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES WEST OF PARIS TEXAS TO 45 MILES EAST
OF EL DORADO ARKANSAS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 368...WW 369...WW 370...
DISCUSSION...SURFACE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM NEAR ADM TO NEAR
SHV. AIRMASS ALONG AND NORTH OF BOUNDARY IS VERY MOIST...WITH
BACKED LOW LEVEL WINDS AND MODERATE INSTABILITY. PRESENT
INDICATIONS ARE THAT ISOLATED SEVERE/SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL
DEVELOP IN THIS REGION DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT...BUT SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL
SHEAR AND LOW LCLS ALSO INDICATE THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED
TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27030.
...HART
342,0954 340,0920 322,0920 324,0954SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 55 min |
| May 14, 5:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 115 min |
| May 14, 10:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Desha, Phillips | 94 min |
| May 14, 10:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 14, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips | 6 hr |
| May 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 118 min |
| May 14, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union | 6 hr |
| May 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 9:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 20 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 39 more | 7 hr |
| May 14, 1:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal and 32 more | 116 min |
| May 14, 3:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 38 more | 116 min |
| May 14, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 7:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Bryan, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 11 more | 95 min |
| May 14, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Tillman | 2 hr |
| May 14, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Payne and 1 more | 113 min |
| May 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 2 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.