Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 350

May 23, 201127 counties in Arkansas; 24 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2011, 9:42 PM CDT for 27 counties in Arkansas; 24 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2011, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 51 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Creek County, OK, Grady County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin, Sebastian33 min
May 23, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Canadian, Dewey, Kingfisher62 min
May 23, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Sebastian56 min
May 23, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Montgomery, Pope, Scott, Yell63 min
May 23, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Payne59 min
May 23, 10:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Sebastian4 hr
May 23, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin, Sebastian47 min
May 23, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan, Oklahoma46 min
May 23, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin28 min
May 23, 10:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington3 hr
May 23, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Kingfisher31 min
May 23, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope and 3 more38 min
May 23, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Payne65 min
May 23, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore46 min
May 23, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee45 min
May 23, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma29 min
May 23, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott40 min
May 23, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma37 min
May 23, 11:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell3 hr
May 23, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Saline45 min
May 23, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pope and 4 more42 min
May 24, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke and 3 more47 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2011-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2770 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2011-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
12.4

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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
May 23, 8:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCConway, Faulkner, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Lonoke and 10 more95 min
May 24, 2:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin and 21 more97 min
May 23, 7:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman55 min
May 23, 9:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Creek, Haskell and 15 more23 min
May 24, 12:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 21 more87 min
May 24, 12:47 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 51 more11 hr
May 24, 2:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Grant, Kay, Woods85 min
May 24, 4:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Cotton, Creek and 21 more87 min
May 24, 6:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garvin and 17 more62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.