Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 359
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2016, 2:26 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 7:54 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 59 counties
Baxter County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross 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, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Fulton County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Wright County, MO, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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
- 30%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Lawrence | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Lawrence | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 4:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ripley | 20 min |
| Jul 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Wayne | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carter, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lake | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ripley | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 23 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 9:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Randolph and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 9:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll, Franklin and 12 more | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 101 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson and 10 more | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bell, Breathitt, Casey, Clark, Clay and 32 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson and 3 more | 84 min |
| Jul 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cedar and 11 more | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 16 more | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Cannon and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson | 88 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.