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Tornado Watch 515
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 8, 2024, 3:58 PM CDT for 35 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2024, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 35 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Ouachita | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 21 min |
| Jul 8, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark | 18 min |
| Jul 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring, Ouachita | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline | 14 min |
| Jul 8, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 17 min |
| Jul 8, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke | 14 min |
| Jul 8, 11:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Jefferson, Lonoke, Perry, Prairie, Pulaski and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Prairie, White | 11 min |
| Jul 9, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Prairie, White | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 26 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Union | 117 min |
| Jul 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Hempstead, Lafayette and 3 more | 2 hr |
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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.