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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 203
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2018, 11:48 PM CDT for 39 counties in Arkansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2018, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry, Saline, Yell | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 6:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln | 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Logan and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Logan and 7 more | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant and 14 more | 90 min |
| Jun 23, 7:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, St. Francis, Woodruff | 118 min |
| Jun 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 5 more | 115 min |
| Jun 22, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 38 more | 113 min |
| Jun 22, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 20 more | 118 min |
| Jun 23, 2:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 114 min |
| Jun 23, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 113 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2018Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2018Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2018
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.