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Tornado Watch 132

April 2, 200631 counties in Arkansas; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2006, 3:27 PM CDT for 31 counties in Arkansas; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2006, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2006, 10:33 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Newton County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Pope County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	31 min
Apr 2, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope	44 min
Apr 2, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	40 min
Apr 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	47 min
Apr 2, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Van Buren	25 min
Apr 2, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Van Buren	25 min
Apr 2, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	45 min
Apr 2, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	38 min
Apr 2, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, White	51 min
Apr 2, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	30 min
Apr 2, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	38 min
Apr 2, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	48 min
Apr 2, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	40 min
Apr 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	24 min
Apr 2, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	51 min
Apr 2, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	45 min
Apr 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	39 min
Apr 2, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	37 min
Apr 2, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	MEG	Greene	48 min
Apr 2, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	55 min
Apr 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Randolph	12 min
Apr 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	14 min
Apr 2, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	30 min
Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	33 min
Apr 2, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	MEG	Dunklin	36 min
Apr 2, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	24 min
Apr 2, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	43 min
Apr 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross	29 min
Apr 2, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	MEG	Pemiscot	48 min
Apr 2, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dunklin	18 min
Apr 2, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
Apr 2, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	28 min
Apr 2, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dunklin	30 min
Apr 2, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dunklin	26 min
Apr 2, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden	29 min
Apr 2, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	31 min
Apr 2, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
Apr 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden	25 min
Apr 2, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	36 min
Apr 2, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	45 min
Apr 2, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	41 min
Apr 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	34 min
Apr 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	60 min
Apr 2, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	34 min
Apr 2, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	54 min
Apr 2, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	50 min
Apr 2, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	41 min
Apr 2, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	45 min
Apr 2, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	19 min
Apr 2, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	51 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 358 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 6:30 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford, Dallas, Faulkner and 21 more	90 min
Apr 1, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	4 hr
Apr 2, 12:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 19 more	93 min
Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	6 hr
Apr 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 42 more	90 min
Apr 2, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 12 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 1:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Greene and 14 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 9:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 24 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 32 more	116 min
Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 58 more	8 hr
Apr 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 9 more	4 hr
Apr 2, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Carter and 44 more	89 min
Apr 2, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Jefferson and 16 more	5 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.