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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 68

March 22, 200535 counties in Arkansas; 26 counties in Mississippi; Shelby County, Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 22, 2005, 12:55 PM CST for 35 counties in Arkansas; 26 counties in Mississippi; Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2005, 12:55 PM CST (18:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2005, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 62 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Shelby County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, Woodruff	45 min
Mar 22, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	45 min
Mar 22, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	26 min
Mar 22, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman	38 min
Mar 22, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	31 min
Mar 22, 4:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	30 min
Mar 22, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	24 min
Mar 22, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	17 min
Mar 22, 4:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tunica	46 min
Mar 22, 4:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola	43 min
Mar 22, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Poinsett	34 min
Mar 22, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Poinsett	33 min
Mar 22, 4:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	24 min
Mar 22, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall	38 min
Mar 22, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	30 min
Mar 22, 5:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	24 min
Mar 22, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	36 min
Mar 22, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Shelby	37 min
Mar 22, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	34 min
Mar 22, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Union	33 min
Mar 22, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	32 min
Mar 22, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	36 min
Mar 22, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	46 min
Mar 22, 6:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	32 min
Mar 22, 7:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	8 min
Mar 22, 7:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	31 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 8:29 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 11 more	91 min
Mar 21, 9:20 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 11 more	7 hr
Mar 21, 10:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 8 more	63 min
Mar 21, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison and 5 more	6 hr
Mar 21, 11:09 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Pike and 1 more	96 min
Mar 21, 11:26 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 10 more	94 min
Mar 22, 1:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Union	6 hr
Mar 22, 2:20 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison and 5 more	85 min
Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Union	2 hr
Mar 22, 11:55 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Chicot, Cleburne, Conway, Crittenden, Cross and 20 more	95 min
Mar 22, 2:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 19 more	96 min
Mar 22, 4:27 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Mississippi	33 min
Mar 22, 3:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Wilkinson	5 hr
Mar 22, 5:59 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah and 8 more	2 hr
Mar 22, 6:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 19 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 9:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson	61 min
Mar 22, 3:43 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Amite, Attala, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene and 23 more	2 hr
Mar 22, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss and 3 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005

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.