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Tornado Watch 124
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2023, 4:54 AM CDT for 24 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2023, 4:54 AM CDT (09:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2023, 10:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, 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, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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
- 30%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 5:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 5:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 16 min |
| Apr 5, 5:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 5:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone | 20 min |
| Apr 5, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 6:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 6:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 8:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott, Yell | 24 min |
| Apr 5, 8:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope and 3 more | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 8:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 8:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott, Yell | 11 min |
| Apr 5, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Marion, Searcy | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Izard, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more | 48 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 19 more | 119 min |
| Apr 5, 12:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 25 more | 94 min |
| Apr 5, 1:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner and 23 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Izard, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren | 87 min |
| Apr 5, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 10 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Little River and 10 more | 95 min |
| Apr 5, 6:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Marion | 95 min |
| Apr 5, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 9 more | 84 min |
| Apr 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Creek, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Logan and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Creek, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garfield, Kay, Noble | 87 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.