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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 359
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2015, 12:18 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2015, 12:18 PM CDT (17:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2015, 7:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 107 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Newton County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Sharp | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Searcy, Stone | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 9 min |
| Jun 26, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | McCracken | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 19 min |
| Jun 26, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Hickman | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Lawrence | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Hickman | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hickman | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby, Tipton | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 5:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Henry | 94 min |
| Jun 26, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 40 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 8 more | 115 min |
| Jun 26, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 85 min |
| Jun 26, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 33 more | 89 min |
| Jun 26, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford, Cross and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Cross, Dallas and 26 more | 92 min |
| Jun 25, 7:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more | 93 min |
| Jun 25, 10:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 12 more | 85 min |
| Jun 26, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd, Franklin and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 33 more | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 32 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Bracken, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Garrard and 11 more | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Clay and 13 more | 84 min |
| Jun 25, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Henry, Jackson and 4 more | 87 min |
| Jun 26, 1:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cedar and 17 more | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cedar and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 17 more | 84 min |
| Jun 26, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Franklin, Grundy and 11 more | 87 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.