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Tornado Watch 126

April 5, 20237 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2023, 8:44 AM CDT for 7 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2023, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2023, 3:46 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 126 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 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: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Marion, Searcy	46 min
Apr 5, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Izard, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more	48 min
Apr 5, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	23 min
Apr 5, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	23 min
Apr 5, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	23 min
Apr 5, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	36 min
Apr 5, 10:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	28 min
Apr 5, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp	35 min
Apr 5, 10:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski	17 min
Apr 5, 11:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	12 min
Apr 5, 11:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie	38 min
Apr 5, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	29 min
Apr 5, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	42 min
Apr 5, 11:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	16 min
Apr 5, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	37 min
Apr 5, 11:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe, Woodruff	9 min
Apr 5, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis	45 min
Apr 5, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	50 min
Apr 5, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Jackson, Pulaski, Union, Williamson	28 min
Apr 5, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	25 min
Apr 5, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis	53 min
Apr 5, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett	38 min
Apr 5, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski	38 min
Apr 5, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	28 min
Apr 5, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	40 min
Apr 5, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wabash	37 min
Apr 5, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	27 min
Apr 5, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Madison	27 min
Apr 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	49 min
Apr 5, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, McLean and 4 more	48 min
Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer	12 min
Apr 5, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	23 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 297 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -339 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 4:54 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead and 18 more	6 hr
Apr 5, 6:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Marion	95 min
Apr 5, 11:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 9 more	84 min
Apr 4, 7:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Livingston, McLean, Tazewell, Woodford	96 min
Apr 4, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carroll, Mercer, Rock Island	6 hr
Apr 5, 3:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 48 more	93 min
Apr 5, 3:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jackson, Union, Williamson	27 min
Apr 5, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 59 more	8 hr
Apr 5, 5:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash	86 min
Apr 5, 6:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 25 more	2 hr
Apr 5, 7:41 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more	7 hr
Apr 5, 9:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 45 more	66 min
Apr 5, 9:25 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 51 more	7 hr
Apr 5, 9:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more	93 min
Apr 5, 12:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 27 more	84 min
Apr 5, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott, Washington	6 hr
Apr 5, 3:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 7 more	85 min
Apr 5, 12:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Butler, Casey and 18 more	84 min
Apr 5, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bracken, Grant, Lewis, Mason, Owen, Pendleton and 1 more	8 hr
Apr 5, 5:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott and 22 more	2 hr
Apr 5, 2:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay, Copiah and 20 more	88 min
Apr 5, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 21 more	4 hr
Apr 5, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Neshoba, Noxubee	87 min
Apr 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Cass, Clay and 11 more	2 hr
Apr 4, 11:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Putnam, Schuyler	86 min
Apr 5, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Bates, Benton, Cass, Cedar, Chariton and 14 more	4 hr

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.