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Tornado Watch 328
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2024, 10:39 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2024, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 39 counties
Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman 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), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 49 min |
| May 26, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett | 45 min |
| May 26, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 11 min |
| May 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 31 min |
| May 26, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 41 min |
| May 26, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 39 min |
| May 26, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 43 min |
| May 26, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Henry and 3 more | 45 min |
| May 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 50 min |
| May 26, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi | 28 min |
| May 27, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 40 min |
| May 27, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton | 39 min |
| May 27, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Tippah | 45 min |
| May 27, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson and 3 more | 52 min |
| May 27, 12:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, Madison | 47 min |
| May 27, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall, Tate | 46 min |
| May 27, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo | 64 min |
| May 27, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Lee, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah and 1 more | 52 min |
| May 27, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lee, Marshall, Prentiss and 3 more | 68 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 3524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 84 min |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner, Jackson and 12 more | 94 min |
| May 26, 10:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Hempstead and 6 more | 113 min |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 12:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 5 more | 113 min |
| May 27, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 118 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Perry | 2 hr |
| May 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iron, Perry, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 89 min |
| May 26, 10:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton and 23 more | 85 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 2 hr |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 36 more | 96 min |
| May 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 70 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 4 more | 55 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.