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Tornado Watch 143
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2024, 5:58 PM CDT for 22 counties in Arkansas; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2024, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2024, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, White County, AR, Anderson County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur and 1 more | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur, Wood | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur, Wood | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Lonoke, Van Buren, White | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Morris, Titus | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Wood | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie and 2 more | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Morris, Red River, Titus | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Miller | 67 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 115 min |
| Apr 26, 9:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Little River | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Scott, Sebastian | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Pike, Sevier | 92 min |
| Apr 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Sherman | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Baylor, Borden, Cottle, Crosby and 30 more | 86 min |
| Apr 25, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Baylor, Borden, Childress, Cottle and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Cottle, Dawson, Dickens, Fisher and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Foard, Hardeman and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cooke, Grayson, Montague | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cooke | 93 min |
| Apr 26, 10:12 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Gregg, Henderson, Hill, Kaufman, McLennan and 6 more | 2 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.