Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 606
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 1, 2012, 6:11 PM CDT for 25 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 2012, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Saline | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 34 min |
| Sep 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie | 51 min |
| Sep 1, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 51 min |
| Sep 1, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 24 min |
| Sep 1, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 22 min |
| Sep 1, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 13 min |
| Sep 1, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant | 24 min |
| Sep 1, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson | 30 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 9:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more | 55 min |
| Sep 1, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 1, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Garland, Grant, Greene and 12 more | 92 min |
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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.