Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 350
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 33 min |
| May 23, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Dewey, Kingfisher | 62 min |
| May 23, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 56 min |
| May 23, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Pope, Scott, Yell | 63 min |
| May 23, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Payne | 59 min |
| May 23, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 4 hr |
| May 23, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 47 min |
| May 23, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 46 min |
| May 23, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 28 min |
| May 23, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 23, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher | 31 min |
| May 23, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope and 3 more | 38 min |
| May 23, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Payne | 65 min |
| May 23, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| May 23, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 45 min |
| May 23, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 29 min |
| May 23, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 40 min |
| May 23, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 37 min |
| May 23, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 3 hr |
| May 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Saline | 45 min |
| May 23, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pope and 4 more | 42 min |
| May 24, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke and 3 more | 47 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.
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Lonoke and 10 more | 95 min |
| May 24, 2:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin and 21 more | 97 min |
| May 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman | 55 min |
| May 23, 9:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Creek, Haskell and 15 more | 23 min |
| May 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 21 more | 87 min |
| May 24, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 51 more | 11 hr |
| May 24, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Woods | 85 min |
| May 24, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Cotton, Creek and 21 more | 87 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garvin and 17 more | 62 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.