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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 473
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2011, 2:45 PM CDT for Chicot County, Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 47 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2011, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Chicot County, AR, East Carroll Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 70 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha, Winston | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Holmes, Montgomery, Webster | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 82 min |
| Jun 13, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lowndes, Neshoba, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Rankin and 2 more | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jones, Smith | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 69 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Fulton and 10 more | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 25 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot, Desha | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Cross and 22 more | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 61 min |
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.