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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 234

April 27, 20115 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Ripley33 min
Apr 27, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more38 min
Apr 27, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler, Carter, Wayne32 min
Apr 27, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Stoddard, Wayne29 min
Apr 27, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Stone, Van Buren38 min
Apr 27, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, White and 1 more39 min
Apr 27, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Stone, Van Buren40 min
Apr 27, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau32 min
Apr 27, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman28 min
Apr 27, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter26 min
Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGCraighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis63 min
Apr 27, 1:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCaldwell, Calloway, Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Marshall and 3 more5 hr
Apr 27, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHUnion26 min
Apr 27, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, White, Woodruff51 min
Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy12 min
Apr 27, 1:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGChester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 7 more3 hr
Apr 27, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHCarter, Wayne31 min
Apr 27, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson, Union33 min
Apr 27, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Poinsett41 min
Apr 27, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Butler, Stoddard34 min
Apr 27, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne30 min
Apr 27, 2:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHButler24 hr
Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardin40 min
Apr 27, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWayne37 min
Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Mississippi, Poinsett30 min
Apr 27, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHButler26 min
Apr 27, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDecatur, Hardin, McNairy38 min
Apr 27, 3:21 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler24 min
Apr 27, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Mississippi34 min
Apr 27, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDecatur, Hardin33 min
Apr 27, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHBollinger, Butler, Stoddard29 min
Apr 27, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHStoddard41 min
Apr 27, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger19 min
Apr 27, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne33 min
Apr 27, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau17 min
Apr 27, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry23 min
Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard35 min
Apr 27, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHAlexander31 min
Apr 27, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau14 min
Apr 27, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson, Union29 min
Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHFranklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Perry, Union and 1 more6 hr
Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson23 min
Apr 27, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson37 min
Apr 27, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski, Union35 min
Apr 27, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson30 min
Apr 27, 4:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHCaldwell, Hopkins6 hr
Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson, Union31 min
Apr 27, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHFranklin, Johnson, Pulaski, Union, Williamson49 min
Apr 27, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGMcNairy85 min
Apr 27, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPope, Saline16 min
Apr 27, 5:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningPAHDaviess, Henderson, Union6 hr
Apr 27, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis, Wayne34 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 582 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 261 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
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

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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 26, 7:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChicot2 hr
Apr 26, 8:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Grant, Hempstead and 10 more97 min
Apr 26, 9:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 21 more62 min
Apr 26, 9:33 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 11 more7 hr
Apr 26, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lee and 8 more7 hr
Apr 26, 11:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChicot, Desha, Phillips117 min
Apr 27, 3:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller2 hr
Apr 27, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 19 more5 hr
Apr 27, 6:25 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Cleburne, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Faulkner and 15 more65 min
Apr 27, 8:40 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 28 more65 min
Apr 27, 9:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Cleveland and 10 more27 min
Apr 27, 11:02 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAshley, Chicot8 hr
Apr 27, 3:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett54 min
Apr 27, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi5 hr
Apr 26, 8:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Lawrence, Wabash, White55 min
Apr 27, 5:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 7 more63 min
Apr 27, 4:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more57 min
Apr 27, 5:07 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 28 more5 hr
Apr 27, 7:34 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 21 more4 hr
Apr 27, 8:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Carter, Greenup, Lewis66 min
Apr 27, 2:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 11 more83 min
Apr 27, 4:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 90 more37 min
Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 92 more7 hr
Apr 27, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more8 hr
Apr 27, 2:26 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Lincoln, Moore6 hr
Apr 27, 8:08 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Lincoln, Moore6 hr
Apr 27, 10:27 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon and 29 more6 hr
Apr 27, 11:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb and 16 more66 min
Apr 27, 12:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Decatur and 21 more67 min
Apr 27, 1:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Loudon and 10 more57 min
Apr 27, 1:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFranklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury and 1 more85 min
Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCFranklin, Lincoln, Moore8 hr
Apr 27, 2:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFranklin, Lincoln, Marion2 hr
Apr 27, 3:36 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAnderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley and 66 more8 hr
Apr 27, 5:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon and 36 more97 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.