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Tornado Watch 189

April 25, 200731 counties in Arkansas; 14 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2007, 3:38 PM CDT for 31 counties in Arkansas; 14 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 2007, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin43 min
Apr 25, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMadison35 min
Apr 25, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland55 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 7:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Clark, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead and 15 more117 min
Apr 24, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Dallas and 26 more4 hr
Apr 24, 10:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 4 more85 min
Apr 24, 10:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLittle River, Miller, Sevier83 min
Apr 24, 10:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more5 hr
Apr 24, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more3 hr
Apr 24, 11:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 15 more92 min
Apr 25, 12:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 2 more90 min
Apr 25, 2:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColumbia, Union65 min
Apr 25, 12:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Washington60 min
Apr 25, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Carroll8 hr
Apr 25, 2:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Boone, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 12 more59 min
Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Ouachita90 min
Apr 25, 6:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 17 more97 min
Apr 24, 7:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway and 53 more97 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.