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Tornado Watch 119
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 4, 2025, 8:50 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2025, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2025, 5:44 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 49 counties
Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Upshur County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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
- 60%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Van Buren, White | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Lonoke, Perry and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 1 more | 21 min |
| Apr 4, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Prairie, Sharp, White and 1 more | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 10:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Pike | 8 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 10:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 10:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 12 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Pulaski, Saline | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 11:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 12:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 21 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike, Saline | 14 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie, White | 21 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Poinsett and 1 more | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 1:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett, St. Francis | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 1:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 20 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 2:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett | 16 min |
| Apr 5, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Scott, Yell | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 2:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 3:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 3:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 6 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 16.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway, Craighead and 28 more | 86 min |
| Apr 4, 11:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleveland, Columbia, Craighead and 23 more | 119 min |
| Apr 5, 2:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 28 more | 119 min |
| Apr 5, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 31 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie and 3 more | 114 min |
| Apr 5, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Pike, Polk, Sevier | 117 min |
| Apr 5, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot, Desha, Phillips | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vernon | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beauregard, Vernon | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Sabine, Vernon | 83 min |
| Apr 5, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 87 min |
| Apr 4, 10:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Coryell, Edwards and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brown, Burnet and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Bandera, Baylor, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 49 more | 114 min |
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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.