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Tornado Watch 172
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 2, 2022, 5:27 PM CDT for 21 counties in Arkansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2022, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2022, 12:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Clark County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 47 min |
| May 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 50 min |
| May 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 34 min |
| May 2, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 36 min |
| May 2, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 48 min |
| May 2, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 48 min |
| May 2, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 48 min |
| May 2, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Sequoyah, Tulsa and 1 more | 44 min |
| May 2, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 47 min |
| May 2, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 17 min |
| May 2, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 24 min |
| May 2, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| May 2, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 33 min |
| May 2, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 46 min |
| May 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 38 min |
| May 2, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 49 min |
| May 2, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 42 min |
| May 2, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 36 min |
| May 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope | 49 min |
| May 2, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 43 min |
| May 2, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 21 min |
| May 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 38 min |
| May 2, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 1 more | 47 min |
| May 2, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott, Yell | 47 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Pike, Polk and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 2, 2:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden | 2 hr |
| May 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garland, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Polk, Saline and 4 more | 67 min |
| May 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 2 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Craig and 29 more | 2 hr |
| May 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 45 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Logan and 2 more | 88 min |
| May 2, 5:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Grady, Kay, Logan, Noble, Oklahoma and 2 more | 59 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.