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Tornado Watch 25
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 22, 2022, 3:52 AM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2022, 3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2022, 10:01 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 87 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, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Perry County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 4:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 4:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley, Stoddard | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 5:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 5:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 5:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 5:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Hickman | 18 min |
| Feb 22, 5:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 19 min |
| Feb 22, 6:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 22 min |
| Feb 22, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 7:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 22 min |
| Feb 22, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Robertson | 26 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 549 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 6:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Franklin, Garland, Hot Spring, Howard, Johnson and 11 more | 113 min |
| Feb 22, 1:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland, Johnson and 13 more | 84 min |
| Feb 22, 3:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 24 more | 90 min |
| Feb 22, 5:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe and 7 more | 89 min |
| Feb 22, 7:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Monroe, St. Francis | 90 min |
| Feb 22, 9:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Lewis, McNairy and 2 more | 117 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.