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Tornado Watch 193

May 6, 202434 counties in Arkansas; 31 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2024, 10:13 PM CDT for 34 counties in Arkansas; 31 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2024, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 65 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner	50 min
May 6, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	45 min
May 6, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Mayes, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 2 more	48 min
May 6, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	39 min
May 6, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	66 min
May 6, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	25 min
May 6, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	32 min
May 6, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, Seminole	51 min
May 7, 12:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Pottawatomie	12 min
May 7, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	41 min
May 7, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	52 min
May 7, 12:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	33 min
May 7, 12:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Pottawatomie, Seminole	5 hr
May 7, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	44 min
May 7, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes, Seminole	33 min
May 7, 1:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	4 hr
May 7, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens	49 min
May 7, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	45 min
May 7, 1:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	4 hr
May 7, 1:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Wagoner	4 hr
May 7, 1:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	35 min
May 7, 1:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Hughes	13 min
May 7, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Crawford, Washington	51 min
May 7, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	46 min
May 7, 2:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford, Washington	34 min
May 7, 2:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	43 min
May 7, 2:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	48 min
May 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	44 min
May 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	29 min
May 7, 3:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Franklin, Madison	28 min
May 7, 3:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	35 min
May 7, 3:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	4 hr
May 7, 3:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Yell	48 min
May 7, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	13 min
May 7, 3:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	8 min
May 7, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more	49 min
May 7, 4:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion, Searcy	41 min
May 7, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Searcy and 3 more	31 min
May 7, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	31 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 13.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 11:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Washington	95 min
May 7, 1:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more	2 hr
May 7, 3:29 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 14 more	2 hr
May 6, 7:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher and 3 more	92 min
May 6, 8:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 5 more	90 min
May 6, 9:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Jackson, Kingfisher, Kiowa and 7 more	62 min
May 6, 9:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nowata, Osage, Washington	55 min
May 6, 10:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 9 more	91 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.