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Tornado Watch 116
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 4, 2025, 3:45 PM CDT for Franklin County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2025, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2025, 6:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Franklin, Madison | 13 min |
| Apr 4, 3:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 5 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Greene and 12 more | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 8:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 92 min |
| Apr 4, 2:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Craighead and 36 more | 114 min |
| Apr 4, 4:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more | 117 min |
| Apr 4, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 15 more | 114 min |
| Apr 4, 12:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 41 more | 115 min |
| Apr 4, 12:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, St. Francis | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 45 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Logan, Montgomery and 5 more | 87 min |
| Apr 4, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway, Dallas and 27 more | 87 min |
| Apr 4, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Tillman | 115 min |
| Apr 4, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Cotton and 13 more | 5 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.