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Tornado Watch 116
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2019, 10:58 PM CDT for 16 counties in Arkansas; 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2019, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2019, 2:59 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Yell County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Atoka, Carter, Coal, Johnston, Murray | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 24 min |
| Apr 30, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 4 hr |
| May 1, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 49 min |
| May 1, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 16 min |
| May 1, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 25 min |
| May 1, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 28 min |
| May 1, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott, Yell | 33 min |
| May 1, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton | 4 hr |
| May 1, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Saline and 1 more | 47 min |
| May 1, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Van Buren | 45 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 30, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 7 more | 94 min |
| May 1, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Johnson, Perry, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 2 more | 55 min |
| May 1, 12:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 12:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 15 more | 114 min |
| May 1, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 11 more | 9 hr |
| May 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 11 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 4:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, Latimer and 4 more | 116 min |
| May 1, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Hughes, Latimer and 4 more | 8 hr |
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.