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Tornado Watch 199
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2025, 3:32 PM CDT for 30 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2025, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2025, 9:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 30 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Grant County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline, Yell | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Van Buren, Yell | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline and 2 more | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 5:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson and 3 more | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Van Buren and 1 more | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Stone, Van Buren | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 17 min |
| Apr 30, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie, White and 1 more | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe and 1 more | 62 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 11:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more | 84 min |
| Apr 30, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Union | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Chicot, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 17 more | 92 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.