Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 107
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 11, 2022, 3:31 PM CDT for 42 counties in Arkansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; Bowie County, Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2022, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2022, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia 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, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller 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, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, 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, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
55 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 23 min |
| Apr 11, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 43 min |
| Apr 11, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 37 min |
| Apr 11, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 19 min |
| Apr 11, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 16 min |
| Apr 11, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 32 min |
| Apr 11, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 66 min |
| Apr 11, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Yell | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 21 min |
| Apr 11, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 49 min |
| Apr 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry | 24 min |
| Apr 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 28 min |
| Apr 11, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland, Pulaski, Saline | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 42 min |
| Apr 11, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 26 min |
| Apr 11, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Pulaski, Saline | 28 min |
| Apr 11, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 21 min |
| Apr 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 32 min |
| Apr 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, White | 53 min |
| Apr 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, White | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 55 min |
| Apr 11, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren, White, Woodruff | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, White | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 28 min |
| Apr 11, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 49 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 (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 92 min |
| Apr 11, 12:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Madison and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 96 min |
| Apr 11, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland and 23 more | 116 min |
| Apr 11, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Faulkner, Logan, Pope | 113 min |
| Apr 11, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Montgomery and 6 more | 89 min |
| Apr 10, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Craig, Creek, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Johnston, Marshall, Pushmataha | 89 min |
| Apr 11, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall | 4 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bexar, Karnes, Live Oak, McMullen, Medina and 1 more | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.