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Tornado Watch 296
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 29, 2019, 6:22 PM CDT for 28 counties in Arkansas; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2019, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Red River | 39 min |
| May 29, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 40 min |
| May 29, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 3 hr |
| May 29, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 58 min |
| May 29, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Little River | 43 min |
| May 29, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Little River, Miller | 41 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
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more | 113 min |
| May 29, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 29, 3:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Crawford, Franklin, Izard, Johnson and 8 more | 94 min |
| May 29, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton, Independence and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 2 hr |
| May 29, 9:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 65 min |
| May 29, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 12:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Franklin, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard and 13 more | 87 min |
| May 29, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 32 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 58 min |
| May 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 29 more | 63 min |
| May 28, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Reagan and 3 more | 117 min |
| May 29, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crane, Dawson and 24 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 4:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Coke, Ector, Fisher, Glasscock and 18 more | 115 min |
| May 29, 7:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin and 7 more | 119 min |
| May 29, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Grayson, Hood and 8 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 9:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crane and 19 more | 86 min |
| May 29, 2:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Mason and 5 more | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.