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Tornado Watch 161
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 28, 2024, 8:54 PM CDT for 12 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; Bolivar County, Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2024, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2024, 11:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, East Carroll Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Bolivar County, MS, Washington County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Lincoln | 64 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 15 more | 89 min |
| Apr 28, 10:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Marion, Newton | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton | 118 min |
| Apr 28, 10:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sabine | 114 min |
| Apr 29, 1:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 14 more | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 3 more | 94 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.