Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 161
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 26, 2017, 6:00 AM CDT for 29 counties in Arkansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2017, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 65 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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
- 5%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 7:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Van Zandt | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 7:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Rockwall, Van Zandt | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 9:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 9:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 9:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Logan, Perry, Pope, Yell | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 9:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Yell | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 10:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan, Pope, Yell | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Pope | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 10:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Scott, Yell | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 10:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 10:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 11:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 48 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Howard, Johnson and 14 more | 113 min |
| Apr 26, 7:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 47 more | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 9 more | 85 min |
| Apr 26, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 97 min |
| Apr 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 19 more | 67 min |
| Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 95 min |
| Apr 25, 7:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garvin, Grady and 23 more | 91 min |
| Apr 25, 10:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Cleveland, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garvin and 17 more | 90 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.