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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 415
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2008, 11:45 AM CDT for 38 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2008, 11:45 AM CDT (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2008, 5:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 12:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Pope and 3 more | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry and 5 more | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke and 4 more | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski and 2 more | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, White | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, Monroe and 3 more | 53 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Johnson, Madison and 4 more | 32 min |
| May 31, 10:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Mississippi | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 2:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Fulton and 6 more | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 6:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Crawford and 14 more | 88 min |
| Jun 1, 7:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Johnson, Logan and 6 more | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Desha and 22 more | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 31, 11:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 16 more | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Carter and 33 more | 7 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.