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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 3

January 12, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 12, 2005, 3:35 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2005, 3:35 PM CST (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jan 12, 2005, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 67 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Calhoun County, IL, Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Ozark	39 days
Jan 12, 3:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Taney	39 days
Jan 12, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton, Polk	39 days
Jan 12, 4:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	35 days
Jan 12, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Douglas	39 days
Jan 12, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Vernon	50 days
Jan 12, 4:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	51 min
Jan 12, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Okfuskee, Sequoyah	68 days
Jan 12, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dallas	50 days
Jan 12, 4:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Jasper, Newton	71 days
Jan 12, 4:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	2 hr
Jan 12, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Choctaw	39 days
Jan 12, 4:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Stone	89 days
Jan 12, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	68 days
Jan 12, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	98 days
Jan 12, 5:07 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Lawrence and 4 more	6 hr
Jan 12, 5:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole, Osage	57 min
Jan 12, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	39 days
Jan 12, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	39 days
Jan 12, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	39 days
Jan 12, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller, Pulaski, Webster	98 days
Jan 12, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	37 min
Jan 12, 5:56 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Chariton, Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson and 5 more	12 hr
Jan 12, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	41 days
Jan 12, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	46 min
Jan 12, 6:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau	6 hr
Jan 12, 6:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Sequoyah	41 days
Jan 12, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	41 days
Jan 12, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	44 min
Jan 12, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	67 days
Jan 12, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	43 min
Jan 12, 7:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	40 min
Jan 12, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Pike	49 min
Jan 12, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	45 min
Jan 12, 7:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	3 hr
Jan 12, 7:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Pike	36 min
Jan 12, 7:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Cedar, Hickory, Miller, Morgan and 2 more	6 hr
Jan 12, 7:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	4 hr
Jan 12, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	44 min
Jan 12, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	40 min
Jan 12, 8:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	38 min
Jan 12, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	29 min
Jan 12, 8:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Laclede, Ozark, Pulaski, Taney, Webster and 1 more	10 hr
Jan 12, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy, Van Buren	51 min
Jan 12, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Maries, Miller, Ozark, Phelps, Pulaski	98 days
Jan 12, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Greene	39 min
Jan 12, 9:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	99 days
Jan 12, 9:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Franklin, Washington	46 min
Jan 12, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon	98 days

Discussions around it

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

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -298 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 453 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 456 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
Jan 12, 3:03 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more	87 min
Jan 12, 4:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Conway, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard and 11 more	83 min
Jan 12, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Conway, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard and 15 more	6 hr
Jan 12, 4:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Cook, DeKalb and 29 more	2 hr
Jan 12, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Cook, DeKalb and 26 more	5 hr
Jan 12, 7:06 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more	5 hr
Jan 12, 10:42 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 8 more	63 min
Jan 12, 12:29 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 2 more	4 hr
Jan 12, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	McDonald, Newton	7 hr
Jan 12, 5:38 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McDonald, Newton	97 min
Jan 12, 2:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 41 more	65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.