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Tornado Watch 28
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 5, 2022, 5:15 PM CST for 19 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2022, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2022, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Adair County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Howard County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
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 5, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Ray | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 39 min |
| Mar 5, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston, Mercer, Sullivan | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Sullivan | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Grundy, Livingston, Ray | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette | 39 min |
| Mar 5, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Saline | 38 min |
| Mar 5, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan | 28 min |
| Mar 5, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, Johnson, Pettis | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 37 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 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 5, 1:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 4 more | 89 min |
| Mar 5, 4:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy and 11 more | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 5:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland | 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.