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Tornado Watch 865

November 15, 20056 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 15, 2005, 7:42 AM CST for 6 states. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 15, 2005, 7:42 AM CST (13:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 154 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Grant 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, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha 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, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren	45 min
Nov 15, 11:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	90 min
Nov 15, 11:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	57 min
Nov 15, 11:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	41 min
Nov 15, 11:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	27 min
Nov 15, 11:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	29 min
Nov 15, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Washington	41 min
Nov 15, 11:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	2 hr
Nov 15, 11:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, White	65 min
Nov 15, 12:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Stone	37 min
Nov 15, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski, Saline	43 min
Nov 15, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid	28 min
Nov 15, 12:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	51 min
Nov 15, 12:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	34 min
Nov 15, 12:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Saline	2 hr
Nov 15, 12:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	41 min
Nov 15, 12:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	26 min
Nov 15, 12:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Williamson	40 min
Nov 15, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	20 min
Nov 15, 12:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Saline	46 min
Nov 15, 12:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	30 min
Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	29 min
Nov 15, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	25 min
Nov 15, 12:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	32 min
Nov 15, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	44 min
Nov 15, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	14 min
Nov 15, 1:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring	27 min
Nov 15, 1:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	39 min
Nov 15, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson	36 min
Nov 15, 1:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	35 min
Nov 15, 1:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	34 min
Nov 15, 1:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	8 min
Nov 15, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	30 min
Nov 15, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	26 min
Nov 15, 1:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac	34 min
Nov 15, 1:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	61 min
Nov 15, 1:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves	28 min
Nov 15, 1:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	16 min
Nov 15, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	45 min
Nov 15, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	44 min
Nov 15, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	29 min
Nov 15, 1:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	88 min
Nov 15, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	27 min
Nov 15, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	27 min
Nov 15, 1:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pope	25 min
Nov 15, 1:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	34 min
Nov 15, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves	14 min
Nov 15, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	28 min
Nov 15, 2:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Marshall	87 min
Nov 15, 2:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	25 min
Nov 15, 2:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hardin	25 min
Nov 15, 2:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Weakley	24 min
Nov 15, 2:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood	36 min
Nov 15, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	48 min
Nov 15, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	20 min
Nov 15, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson	25 min
Nov 15, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	25 min
Nov 15, 2:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henry	38 min
Nov 15, 2:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Lyon, Marshall	35 min
Nov 15, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	19 min
Nov 15, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin	37 min
Nov 15, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	32 min
Nov 15, 2:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	88 min
Nov 15, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union, Williamson	42 min
Nov 15, 2:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	39 min
Nov 15, 2:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Madison	24 min
Nov 15, 2:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union, Williamson	52 min
Nov 15, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	46 min
Nov 15, 2:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	29 min
Nov 15, 2:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll	44 min
Nov 15, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	41 min
Nov 15, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell	26 min
Nov 15, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson	56 min
Nov 15, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	41 min
Nov 15, 2:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	48 min
Nov 15, 2:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henry	16 min
Nov 15, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway	17 min
Nov 15, 3:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Madison	13 min
Nov 15, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	25 min
Nov 15, 3:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	37 min
Nov 15, 3:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Phillips	36 min
Nov 15, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	36 min
Nov 15, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	49 min
Nov 15, 3:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins	33 min
Nov 15, 3:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Madison	33 min
Nov 15, 3:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton	47 min
Nov 15, 3:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope, Saline	50 min
Nov 15, 3:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll	17 min
Nov 15, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Trigg	30 min
Nov 15, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	59 min
Nov 15, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	26 min
Nov 15, 3:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Saline, White	84 min
Nov 15, 3:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Saline	24 min
Nov 15, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	23 min
Nov 15, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	66 min
Nov 15, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin	48 min
Nov 15, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean	18 min
Nov 15, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Houston	47 min
Nov 15, 3:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Madison	31 min
Nov 15, 3:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys	25 min
Nov 15, 3:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	23 min
Nov 15, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean	23 min
Nov 15, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	31 min
Nov 15, 4:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	56 min
Nov 15, 4:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess	39 min
Nov 15, 4:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	50 min
Nov 15, 4:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henderson	35 min
Nov 15, 4:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss	23 min
Nov 15, 4:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henderson	26 min
Nov 15, 4:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Henderson	85 min
Nov 15, 4:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	54 min
Nov 15, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	53 min
Nov 15, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	21 min
Nov 15, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys	61 min
Nov 15, 4:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	29 min
Nov 15, 4:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	13 min
Nov 15, 4:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	41 min
Nov 15, 4:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Madison	24 min
Nov 15, 4:39 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Tipton	2 hr
Nov 15, 4:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson	32 min
Nov 15, 4:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	2 hr
Nov 15, 4:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester, Madison	30 min
Nov 15, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	43 min
Nov 15, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Todd	29 min
Nov 15, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	18 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 8:56 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 28 more	3 hr
Nov 14, 9:28 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 19 more	8 hr
Nov 14, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more	7 hr
Nov 15, 2:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 28 more	113 min
Nov 15, 6:04 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 66 more	116 min
Nov 15, 7:02 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Columbia and 29 more	8 hr
Nov 15, 10:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 67 more	2 hr
Nov 15, 12:34 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Chicot, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland and 30 more	116 min
Nov 15, 8:31 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more	59 min
Nov 15, 10:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 41 more	7 hr
Nov 15, 1:32 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar and 25 more	88 min
Nov 15, 11:55 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Boone, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll and 22 more	2 hr
Nov 15, 2:01 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 53 more	7 hr
Nov 15, 5:06 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carter, Greenup, Lewis, Mason	6 hr
Nov 15, 5:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Bullitt and 30 more	92 min
Nov 15, 9:31 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 21 more	119 min
Nov 15, 12:09 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 13 more	7 hr
Nov 15, 2:55 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 27 more	65 min
Nov 15, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 25 more	8 hr
Nov 15, 3:17 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 9 more	88 min
Nov 14, 11:08 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dade and 12 more	97 min
Nov 15, 2:57 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Henry and 3 more	63 min
Nov 15, 7:47 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	4 hr

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.