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Tornado Watch 131
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 15, 2022, 7:54 PM CDT for 19 counties in Arkansas; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri; 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2022, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Fayette County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 21 min |
| Apr 15, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton | 12 min |
| Apr 15, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Tipton | 7 min |
| Apr 15, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, McNairy, Madison | 48 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 581 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis, Woodruff | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Scott, Sebastian, Yell | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Benton, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Greene and 25 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 21 more | 2 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.