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Tornado Watch 706

November 4, 20245 counties in Arkansas; McCurtain County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 4, 2024, 5:30 PM CST for 5 counties in Arkansas; McCurtain County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 4, 2024, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Nov 4, 2024, 11:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 21 counties

Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Sevier County, AR, McCurtain County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
40%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
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
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 4, 5:33 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain42 min
Nov 4, 6:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River, Sevier42 min
Nov 4, 6:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVSevier8 hr
Nov 4, 6:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMcCurtain49 min
Nov 4, 7:47 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVMcCurtain3 hr

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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 644 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 255 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
10.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 6:46 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier119 min
Nov 3, 7:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Sebastian4 hr
Nov 3, 9:59 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Polk, Scott, Sebastian2 hr
Nov 4, 12:12 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton63 min
Nov 4, 1:14 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Madison, Washington91 min
Nov 4, 1:26 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFranklin, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Johnson, Little River and 9 more2 hr
Nov 4, 1:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more9 hr
Nov 4, 2:54 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Crawford, Washington96 min
Nov 4, 5:05 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHoward, Little River, Miller, Pike, Sevier55 min
Nov 3, 11:37 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreer, Harmon, Jackson2 hr
Nov 4, 5:01 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more119 min
Nov 4, 8:37 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 27 more2 hr
Nov 4, 10:52 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 34 more9 hr
Nov 3, 7:19 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan and 4 more86 min
Nov 4, 1:07 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 13 more83 min
Nov 4, 3:38 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bell, Burnet, Camp, Collin, Coryell and 30 more2 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.