Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 78
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 24, 2005, 8:45 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2005, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2005, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 9:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 63 min |
| Mar 24, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 81 min |
| Mar 24, 10:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 65 min |
| Mar 24, 11:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 64 min |
| Mar 24, 11:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 81 min |
| Mar 25, 1:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 23 min |
| Mar 25, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 32 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 386 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 8:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 12 more | 88 min |
| Mar 24, 11:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 7 more | 93 min |
| Mar 25, 2:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 20 more | 93 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.