Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 313
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2005, 3:25 AM CDT for 34 counties in Arkansas; Chautauqua County, Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2005, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Benton County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Desha County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Chautauqua County, KS, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 49 min |
| May 23, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 61 min |
| May 23, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy | 60 min |
| May 23, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 52 min |
| May 23, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 54 min |
| May 23, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 54 min |
| May 23, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 46 min |
| May 23, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 66 min |
| May 23, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 64 min |
| May 23, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 48 min |
| May 23, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 39 min |
| May 23, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 40 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 9:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 10 more | 117 min |
| May 22, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 11:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more | 115 min |
| May 23, 2:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner and 9 more | 59 min |
| May 23, 6:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Benton, Carroll, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 30 more | 87 min |
| May 23, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Pike and 3 more | 97 min |
| May 23, 2:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 67 min |
| May 23, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 8 hr |
| May 23, 4:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery | 84 min |
| May 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 28 more | 87 min |
| May 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 5:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain and 3 more | 65 min |
| May 23, 4:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 96 min |
| May 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.