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Tornado Watch 122

April 13, 20224 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2022, 1:42 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2022, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 60 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, 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, 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), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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: 80%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Mississippi	21 min
Apr 13, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	36 min
Apr 13, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	33 min
Apr 13, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, St. Francis	44 min
Apr 13, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	24 min
Apr 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	46 min
Apr 13, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dunklin, Pemiscot	23 min
Apr 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	25 min
Apr 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Mississippi	49 min
Apr 13, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, St. Francis	40 min
Apr 13, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden	50 min
Apr 13, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	25 min
Apr 13, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	44 min
Apr 13, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Weakley	10 min
Apr 13, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie and 2 more	94 min
Apr 13, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley	52 min
Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	63 min
Apr 13, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	45 min
Apr 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln	55 min
Apr 13, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	52 min
Apr 13, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby, Tipton	51 min
Apr 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Jefferson and 2 more	85 min
Apr 13, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henderson and 1 more	51 min
Apr 13, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	34 min
Apr 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	4 hr
Apr 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	33 min
Apr 13, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	41 min
Apr 13, 4:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	4 hr
Apr 13, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Tipton	51 min
Apr 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Desha, Drew, Lincoln, Monroe	79 min
Apr 13, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	50 min
Apr 13, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, Phillips	47 min
Apr 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	44 min
Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	18 min
Apr 13, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henderson, Henry	38 min
Apr 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Phillips	51 min
Apr 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Phillips	37 min
Apr 13, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 1 more	47 min
Apr 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica	44 min
Apr 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Shelby	52 min
Apr 13, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	47 min
Apr 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate, Tippah and 1 more	43 min
Apr 13, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Tippah	42 min
Apr 13, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin and 3 more	64 min
Apr 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto	3 hr
Apr 13, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	39 min
Apr 13, 6:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 13, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Tippah	52 min
Apr 13, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo	41 min
Apr 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Tippah, Union and 1 more	39 min
Apr 13, 6:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Madison	3 hr
Apr 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Yalobusha	53 min
Apr 13, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and 1 more	47 min
Apr 13, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and 1 more	49 min
Apr 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	45 min
Apr 13, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	36 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -450 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 627 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and 4 more	7 hr
Apr 12, 9:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more	96 min
Apr 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	2 hr
Apr 12, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	4 hr
Apr 13, 7:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Garland and 19 more	2 hr
Apr 13, 10:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 23 more	83 min
Apr 13, 10:37 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 36 more	6 hr
Apr 13, 10:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Fulton, Marion	56 min
Apr 13, 12:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 2 more	118 min
Apr 13, 2:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 1 more	63 min
Apr 13, 2:48 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	8 hr
Apr 13, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chicot	84 min
Apr 13, 5:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Desha, Drew, Phillips	90 min
Apr 13, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 31 more	91 min
Apr 12, 9:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 13, 7:38 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 11 more	2 hr
Apr 13, 11:16 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 20 more	5 hr
Apr 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 23 more	117 min
Apr 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bedford, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson, Giles and 20 more	4 hr
Apr 13, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lincoln, Moore	4 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2022 Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2022 Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2022 Every tornado watch in 2022

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.