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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 385

June 2, 200443 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 7 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT for 43 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 54 counties

Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	45 min
Jun 2, 5:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Scott	119 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Yell	48 min
Jun 2, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence	49 min
Jun 2, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	23 min
Jun 2, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	43 min
Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence	38 min
Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	68 min
Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	57 min
Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	43 min
Jun 2, 6:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery	119 min
Jun 2, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River	42 min
Jun 2, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	27 min
Jun 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring	60 min
Jun 2, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	87 min
Jun 2, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	54 min
Jun 2, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Titus	87 min
Jun 2, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	54 min
Jun 2, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	41 min
Jun 2, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	89 min
Jun 2, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Nevada	63 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Logan	2 hr
Jun 2, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp	53 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Ouachita	58 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	62 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion, Upshur, Wood	77 min
Jun 2, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	73 min
Jun 2, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	27 min
Jun 2, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	59 min
Jun 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	70 min
Jun 2, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	70 min
Jun 2, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas	50 min
Jun 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	47 min
Jun 2, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	46 min
Jun 2, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	44 min
Jun 2, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	45 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -500 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner, Greene and 20 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 26 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington	115 min
Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland and 22 more	56 min
Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caddo	6 hr
Jun 1, 10:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell and 16 more	60 min
Jun 1, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Caldwell and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 1:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Caddo and 14 more	116 min
Jun 2, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ascension, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Franklin and 16 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 5:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Franklin and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 11:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Brazoria and 39 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 1:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay	4 hr
Jun 2, 3:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 21 more	116 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 10 more	7 hr
Jun 2, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 16 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Callahan, Camp and 48 more	6 hr
Jun 2, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 23 more	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004

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.