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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 71

March 22, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 22, 2005, 4:50 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2005, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2005, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 54 counties

Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Marion County, AL, Winston County, AL, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Union	33 min
Mar 22, 5:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Madison	27 min
Mar 22, 5:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Madison	27 min
Mar 22, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	38 min
Mar 22, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	30 min
Mar 22, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson, Obion, Weakley	41 min
Mar 22, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	36 min
Mar 22, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	30 min
Mar 22, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	49 min
Mar 22, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	34 min
Mar 22, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	33 min
Mar 22, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson	31 min
Mar 22, 7:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Tishomingo	47 min
Mar 22, 7:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	46 min
Mar 22, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin, Henderson	26 min
Mar 22, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hickman	46 min
Mar 22, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	54 min
Mar 22, 7:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	67 min
Mar 22, 8:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	23 min
Mar 22, 8:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	41 min
Mar 22, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	50 min
Mar 22, 9:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Maury	65 min
Mar 22, 9:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 6:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas and 7 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 7:38 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more	67 min
Mar 22, 7:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva and 4 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 8:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 30 more	26 min
Mar 22, 9:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 23 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 9:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more	61 min
Mar 22, 12:51 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more	54 min
Mar 22, 1:20 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Henry, Houston	7 hr
Mar 22, 3:43 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Greene, Sumter, Washington	2 hr
Mar 22, 4:27 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more	33 min
Mar 22, 1:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin and 15 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 3:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Wilkinson	5 hr
Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin and 14 more	2 hr
Mar 22, 5:59 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah and 8 more	2 hr
Mar 22, 11:55 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada and 11 more	95 min
Mar 22, 12:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw, Coahoma and 20 more	7 hr
Mar 22, 2:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman and 2 more	96 min
Mar 21, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barry, McDonald	6 hr
Mar 22, 2:20 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, McDonald	85 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 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.