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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 162
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 4, 2020, 12:35 PM CDT for 15 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2020, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2020, 5:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 24 min |
| May 4, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 25 min |
| May 4, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Izard, Lawrence, Sharp, Stone | 47 min |
| May 4, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp | 38 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more | 90 min |
| May 4, 10:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Fulton and 12 more | 97 min |
| May 4, 1:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard and 8 more | 86 min |
| May 4, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 114 min |
| May 4, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 118 min |
| May 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 4, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 6 hr |
| May 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Greene, Mississippi, Randolph | 61 min |
| May 4, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 54 min |
| May 4, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 6 more | 2 hr |
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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.