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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 170

April 20, 201142 counties in Arkansas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski, Saline38 min
Apr 20, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Polk, Scott65 min
Apr 20, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry, Pope, Saline, Yell49 min
Apr 20, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell60 min
Apr 20, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan22 min
Apr 20, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Howard49 min
Apr 20, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White46 min
Apr 20, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline44 min
Apr 20, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike68 min
Apr 20, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring, Pike60 min
Apr 20, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott, Yell22 min
Apr 20, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski, Saline41 min
Apr 20, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff49 min
Apr 20, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline49 min
Apr 20, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Hot Spring, Pike48 min
Apr 20, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff38 min
Apr 20, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson31 min
Apr 20, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe, Prairie43 min
Apr 20, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline35 min
Apr 20, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie3 hr
Apr 20, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring52 min
Apr 20, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline39 min
Apr 20, 5:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke and 3 more3 hr
Apr 20, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk35 min
Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward, Sevier51 min
Apr 20, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Howard, Sevier60 min
Apr 20, 7:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Garland and 7 more3 hr
Apr 20, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Yell25 min
Apr 20, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Nevada57 min
Apr 20, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward, Sevier64 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2011-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2011-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -175 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 7:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCConway, Franklin, Howard, Johnson, Little River, Logan and 13 more88 min
Apr 19, 8:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 18 more83 min
Apr 19, 10:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot7 hr
Apr 19, 11:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more58 min
Apr 19, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more3 hr
Apr 20, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshley, Chicot8 hr
Apr 20, 12:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 8 more89 min
Apr 20, 1:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Lee, Phillips7 hr
Apr 20, 5:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChicot, Drew96 min
Apr 20, 5:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 23 more2 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.