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Tornado Watch 563
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 4, 2022, 10:04 PM CDT for 21 counties in Arkansas; 25 parishes in Louisiana; Jasper County, Newton County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 2022, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2022, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 49 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Union County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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
- 50%
- 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
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River, Sabine and 1 more | 63 min |
| Nov 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Izard, Searcy and 3 more | 40 min |
| Nov 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 10 min |
| Nov 4, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring and 4 more | 52 min |
| Nov 4, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster | 60 min |
| Nov 4, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Lincoln, Webster | 23 min |
| Nov 4, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and 1 more | 67 min |
| Nov 4, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline, White | 48 min |
| Nov 4, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence and 4 more | 43 min |
| Nov 4, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski and 1 more | 40 min |
| Nov 4, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 55 min |
| Nov 4, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 23 min |
| Nov 4, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson and 1 more | 45 min |
| Nov 4, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 38 min |
| Nov 4, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln, Union | 62 min |
| Nov 4, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 46 min |
| Nov 4, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Winn | 55 min |
| Nov 5, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 28 min |
| Nov 5, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff | 50 min |
| Nov 5, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 51 min |
| Nov 5, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 36 min |
| Nov 5, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson and 2 more | 49 min |
| Nov 5, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 59 min |
| Nov 5, 1:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha | 25 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 88 min |
| Nov 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland and 15 more | 62 min |
| Nov 4, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Drew, Lincoln and 1 more | 115 min |
| Nov 4, 9:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Fulton and 16 more | 117 min |
| Nov 4, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 12:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Cross, Desha, Drew and 6 more | 61 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.