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Tornado Watch 58
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 4, 2014, 12:40 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2014, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2014, 5:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 85 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Grant County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Prairie County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Chester County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Grant, Jefferson and 1 more | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln, Monroe | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Lee | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 2:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate and 1 more | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 2:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 2:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 2:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc and 3 more | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 19 min |
| Apr 4, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 3:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore | 27 min |
| Apr 4, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Tippah | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 4, 3:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 3:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Montgomery | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah and 2 more | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 4:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Richland | 57 min |
| Apr 4, 4:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Richland | 114 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 (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Madison, Marion | 94 min |
| Apr 3, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 29 more | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette and 7 more | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 32 more | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett | 95 min |
| Apr 4, 12:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 20 more | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 12:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Columbia, Union | 95 min |
| Apr 4, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, De Soto and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Madison, Morehouse and 4 more | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 5:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia and 15 more | 116 min |
| Apr 4, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catahoula, Concordia, Madison, Tensas | 92 min |
| Apr 4, 5:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell, De Soto, Franklin and 8 more | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 7:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Calcasieu and 26 more | 83 min |
| Apr 4, 10:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Cameron, Catahoula and 28 more | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 2:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe and 3 more | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 2:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Neshoba, Newton and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Macon and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Obion, Stewart, Weakley | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 4:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Morgan and 7 more | 93 min |
| Apr 4, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Claiborne, Hamilton, Hancock and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cocke, Greene, Jefferson, Monroe, Polk and 1 more | 90 min |
| Apr 4, 7:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Meigs, Morgan, Rhea and 3 more | 49 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.