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Tornado Watch 861

November 14, 20054 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 1:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant39 min
Nov 14, 2:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski, Saline52 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2005-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2005-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 302 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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 330,0930

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 6:28 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 46 more2 hr
Nov 14, 1:12 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner, Grant and 14 more93 min
Nov 14, 3:42 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland and 29 more93 min
Nov 14, 5:40 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 52 more95 min
Nov 14, 4:56 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 26 more3 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.