Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 24
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 21, 2022, 8:49 PM CST for 38 counties in Arkansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma; Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2022, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2022, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 51 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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
- 60%
- 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 16 min |
| Feb 21, 11:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 23 min |
| Feb 21, 11:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin | 23 min |
| Feb 21, 11:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 20 min |
| Feb 22, 12:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 2:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Independence, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone and 1 more | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Logan, Perry, Pope, Saline and 2 more | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 2 more | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 3:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Perry, Pope and 4 more | 51 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 6:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Franklin, Garland, Hot Spring, Howard, Johnson and 11 more | 113 min |
| Feb 22, 1:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland, Johnson and 13 more | 84 min |
| Feb 22, 3:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 24 more | 90 min |
| Feb 22, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe and 7 more | 89 min |
| Feb 22, 7:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Monroe, St. Francis | 90 min |
| Feb 21, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Garvin and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Love, Marshall | 114 min |
| Feb 22, 12:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Denton, Eastland, Fannin, Grayson, Palo Pinto and 2 more | 65 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.