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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 116

April 3, 200713 counties in Arkansas; Choctaw County, McCurtain County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma; 55 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2007, 5:47 PM CDT for 13 counties in Arkansas; Choctaw County, McCurtain County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma; 55 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2007, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 71 counties

Clark County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Choctaw County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Real County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Travis County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 5%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 90%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	65 min
Apr 3, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	60 min
Apr 3, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	67 min
Apr 3, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	57 min
Apr 3, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	57 min
Apr 3, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	53 min
Apr 3, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	56 min
Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk	61 min
Apr 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas	3 hr
Apr 3, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason	48 min
Apr 3, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	57 min
Apr 3, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	53 min
Apr 3, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	61 min
Apr 3, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	56 min
Apr 3, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	58 min
Apr 3, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	55 min
Apr 3, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason	35 min
Apr 3, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	45 min
Apr 3, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	52 min
Apr 3, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	59 min
Apr 3, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Tarrant	25 min
Apr 3, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	65 min
Apr 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	62 min
Apr 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	39 min
Apr 3, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard	38 min
Apr 3, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	66 min
Apr 3, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	30 min
Apr 3, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	42 min
Apr 3, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	63 min
Apr 3, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	61 min
Apr 3, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	44 min
Apr 3, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	57 min
Apr 3, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	77 min
Apr 3, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	45 min
Apr 3, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	53 min
Apr 3, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard	29 min
Apr 3, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton	37 min
Apr 3, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morris, Titus	34 min
Apr 3, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	32 min
Apr 3, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	45 min
Apr 3, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	58 min
Apr 3, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Morris, Titus	45 min
Apr 3, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	50 min
Apr 3, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	60 min
Apr 3, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	38 min
Apr 3, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	47 min
Apr 3, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone, Robertson	76 min
Apr 4, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Wood	50 min
Apr 4, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	33 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 11:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Craighead and 14 more	26 min
Apr 3, 2:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 53 more	118 min
Apr 3, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 39 more	7 hr
Apr 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe and 5 more	60 min
Apr 3, 11:29 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange	2 hr
Apr 3, 4:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Hood and 5 more	3 hr
Apr 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Llano and 1 more	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2007 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2007 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.