Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 2009
Tornado Watch 106
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2009, 10:53 AM CDT for 22 counties in Mississippi; 6 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2009, 10:53 AM CDT (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2009, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 28 counties
Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Chester County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Union | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 2:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 3 hr |
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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 8:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne and 32 more | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 9:24 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 49 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 40 more | 84 min |
| Apr 2, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Kemper and 6 more | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, Copiah and 20 more | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Coahoma and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 25 more | 84 min |
| Apr 2, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, DeSoto, Itawamba and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheatham, Davidson, Houston, Macon, Montgomery, Robertson and 4 more | 116 min |
| Apr 2, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Houston and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall and 2 more | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 4:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Jackson, Pickett | 85 min |
| Apr 2, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cumberland, Fentress and 20 more | 95 min |
| Apr 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell and 52 more | 7 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.