Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 234
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 27, 2011, 12:42 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2011, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2011, 5:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 99 counties
Baxter County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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
- 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
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Wayne | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Stoddard, Wayne | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Stone, Van Buren | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, White and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Stone, Van Buren | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 28 min |
| Apr 27, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 63 min |
| Apr 27, 1:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Marshall and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy | 12 min |
| Apr 27, 1:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Wayne | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Decatur, Hardin, McNairy | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler | 24 min |
| Apr 27, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Decatur, Hardin | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 19 min |
| Apr 27, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 17 min |
| Apr 27, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry | 23 min |
| Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 14 min |
| Apr 27, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Perry, Union and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 23 min |
| Apr 27, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski, Union | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Hopkins | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Johnson, Pulaski, Union, Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | McNairy | 85 min |
| Apr 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pope, Saline | 16 min |
| Apr 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, Union | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne | 34 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 582 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Grant, Hempstead and 10 more | 97 min |
| Apr 26, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 21 more | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lee and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot, Desha, Phillips | 117 min |
| Apr 27, 3:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Cleburne, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Faulkner and 15 more | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 8:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 28 more | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 9:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Cleveland and 10 more | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 11:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 54 min |
| Apr 27, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Lawrence, Wabash, White | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 7 more | 63 min |
| Apr 27, 4:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 5:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lewis | 66 min |
| Apr 27, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 11 more | 83 min |
| Apr 27, 4:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 90 more | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 92 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb and 16 more | 66 min |
| Apr 27, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Decatur and 21 more | 67 min |
| Apr 27, 1:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Loudon and 10 more | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 1:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury and 1 more | 85 min |
| Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Marion | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley and 66 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon and 36 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2011Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2011
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.