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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 335
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2016, 10:48 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2016, 10:48 AM CDT (15:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 3:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 72 counties
Baxter County, AR, Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Izard County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Wayne | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds, Saint Francois, Washington | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Wayne | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Randolph | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Lyon, Marshall | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Jackson, Pulaski, Union | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon and 2 more | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry | 48 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 2145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 6, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Fulton, Greene, Randolph | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence and 3 more | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 8:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, Winnebago | 89 min |
| Jul 6, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Cook, DeWitt, DuPage and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 41 more | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Carter, Clark and 19 more | 84 min |
| Jul 6, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Knox, Laurel and 7 more | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Jasper | 85 min |
| Jul 6, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Greene and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Christian, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and 1 more | 54 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.