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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 403

June 5, 200520 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Missouri; LeFlore County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2005, 12:35 AM CDT for 20 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Missouri; LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2005, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2005, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Yell County, AR, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:35 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFStone48 min
Jun 5, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin63 min
Jun 5, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott43 min
Jun 5, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan62 min
Jun 5, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Newton56 min
Jun 5, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott30 min
Jun 5, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Yell66 min
Jun 5, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope52 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2005-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1867 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2005-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton96 min
Jun 4, 10:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton52 min
Jun 4, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Crawford, Washington7 hr
Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Boone, Conway, Fulton, Izard, Johnson and 6 more63 min
Jun 5, 3:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring and 13 more88 min
Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe and 4 more2 hr
Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe and 4 more8 hr
Jun 4, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Jasper, McDonald, Newton, St. Clair, Vernon2 hr
Jun 4, 9:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 26 more87 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Audrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln and 7 more90 min
Jun 5, 12:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike and 3 more95 min
Jun 4, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLove4 hr
Jun 5, 4:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Stephens93 min
Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more85 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 10 more7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005

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.