Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 170
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 20, 2011, 2:04 PM CDT for 42 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2011, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 38 min |
| Apr 20, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope, Saline, Yell | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 22 min |
| Apr 20, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike | 68 min |
| Apr 20, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring, Pike | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott, Yell | 22 min |
| Apr 20, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Pulaski, Saline | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring, Pike | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 38 min |
| Apr 20, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 4:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie | 3 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Sevier | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 7:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Garland and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 20, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Yell | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 57 min |
| Apr 20, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 64 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Franklin, Howard, Johnson, Little River, Logan and 13 more | 88 min |
| Apr 19, 8:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 18 more | 83 min |
| Apr 19, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 8 hr |
| Apr 20, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 8 more | 89 min |
| Apr 20, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Lee, Phillips | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot, Drew | 96 min |
| Apr 20, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 23 more | 2 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.