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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 37
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 3, 2020, 12:59 AM CST for 7 counties in Arkansas; 7 counties in Mississippi; 21 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2020, 12:59 AM CST (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2020, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 35 counties
Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica 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), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Decatur, Henderson | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 1:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi | 19 min |
| Mar 3, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Crockett, Henderson, Madison | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Tippah | 50 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 11:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, St. Francis | 116 min |
| Mar 3, 2:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon and 7 more | 118 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.