Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 23
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2019, 5:28 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2019, 5:28 AM CDT (10:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 72 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene 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, Randolph County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington 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, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 16 min |
| Mar 14, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 6:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Prairie, White, Woodruff | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene, Mississippi | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 6:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Cross, Poinsett | 3 hr |
| Mar 14, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 43 min |
| Mar 14, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 45 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 (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Pike, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 83 min |
| Mar 14, 4:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 19 more | 88 min |
| Mar 14, 7:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, Grenada and 15 more | 58 min |
| Mar 14, 11:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 23 more | 88 min |
| Mar 14, 12:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee and 2 more | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 14 more | 95 min |
| Mar 14, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Leake and 8 more | 92 min |
| Mar 14, 2:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Obion, Stewart, Weakley | 83 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.