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Tornado Watch 748
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 22, 2010, 7:57 PM CST for 34 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 2010, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2010, 2:28 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Baxter 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, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 7:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 24 more | 66 min |
| Nov 22, 8:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 27 min |
| Nov 22, 8:27 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 22, 11:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 23, 1:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 88 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.