Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 406
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2014, 5:56 PM CDT for 34 counties in Arkansas; 17 counties in Mississippi; 12 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2014, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 63 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Chester County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Madison | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Madison | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Saline, Yell | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Van Buren, Yell | 109 min |
| Jul 8, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Yell | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, White | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 9:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, McNairy | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Cross | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
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 (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Cross, Faulkner and 26 more | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Cannon and 35 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2014
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.