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Tornado Watch 113
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2008, 11:01 PM CDT for 33 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2008, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 2:24 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Attala County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery, Winston | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 55 min |
| Mar 15, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Winston | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 19 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 150402
SEL3
SPC WW 150402
MSZ000-151100-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 113
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1100 PM CDT FRI MAR 14 2008
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING FROM 1100 PM
UNTIL 600 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE
MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MERIDIAN
MISSISSIPPI. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 111...WW 112...
DISCUSSION...SEMI-DISCRETE SUPERCELLS CONTINUE TO MOVE/DEVELOP
GENERALLY ESE ALONG STRENGTHENING WNW/ESE WARM FRONT ATTM BETWEEN
JAN AND GWO. STRENGTH OF DEEP SHEAR...ENHANCED LOW-LEVEL
DIRECTIONAL SHEAR NEAR FRONT...AND INCREASING UVV DOWNSTREAM FROM
POTENT ERN OK VORT MAX SUGGEST CONTINUED LIKELIHOOD FOR SUPERCELLS
AND EVENTUAL MCS DEVELOPMENT. AN ATTENDANT THREAT FOR ISOLATED
TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY DMGG WIND WILL PERSIST THROUGH
EARLY SATURDAY.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 28025.
...CORFIDISPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower and 2 more | 55 min |
| Mar 14, 10:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke and 24 more | 84 min |
| Mar 14, 11:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower and 2 more | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 25 more | 88 min |
| Mar 15, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Lee and 10 more | 93 min |
| Mar 15, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 15 more | 90 min |
| Mar 15, 6:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Tishomingo | 62 min |
| Mar 15, 10:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola and 6 more | 67 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.