Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 861
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 14, 2005, 1:50 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 14, 2005, 1:50 PM CST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2005, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 1:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 39 min |
| Nov 14, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 52 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 141950
SEL1
SPC WW 141950
ARZ000-MOZ000-MSZ000-TNZ000-150300-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 861
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
150 PM CST MON NOV 14 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS
MISSOURI BOOTHEEL
NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
WESTERN TENNESSEE
EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 150 PM UNTIL 900
PM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 60 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF HOT SPRINGS
ARKANSAS TO 25 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF DYERSBURG TENNESSEE. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
DISCUSSION...SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL/SOUTHERN
AR...SPREADING TOWARD WESTERN TN AFTER DARK. MOIST/UNSTABLE AIR
MASS ALONG AND SOUTH OF WARM FRONT...COUPLED WITH INCREASING
VERTICAL SHEAR PROFILES WILL POSE A THREAT OF SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF
DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24030.
...HART
345,0930 364,0885 345,0885 330,0930SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 6:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 46 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 14, 1:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner, Grant and 14 more | 93 min |
| Nov 14, 3:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland and 29 more | 93 min |
| Nov 14, 5:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 52 more | 95 min |
| Nov 14, 4:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 26 more | 3 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.