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Tornado Watch 33
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 6, 2022, 2:18 PM CST for 42 counties in Arkansas; 14 counties in Missouri; LeFlore County, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2022, 2:18 PM CST (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2022, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 58 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Greene County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Taney County, MO, Wayne County, MO, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 16 min |
| Mar 6, 4:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 19 min |
| Mar 6, 4:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead | 28 min |
| Mar 6, 4:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Mar 6, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 52 min |
| Mar 6, 5:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope | 42 min |
| Mar 6, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 5:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 24 min |
| Mar 6, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 17 min |
| Mar 6, 5:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 32 min |
| Mar 6, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Mar 6, 6:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Searcy, Stone | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 7:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 7:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone | 20 min |
| Mar 6, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 7:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp | 28 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 1:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 40 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 6, 3:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland and 23 more | 91 min |
| Mar 6, 5:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 22 more | 88 min |
| Mar 5, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Carroll, Chariton, Clark and 15 more | 87 min |
| Mar 5, 7:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Barton, Benton, Callaway, Camden, Cedar and 24 more | 95 min |
| Mar 5, 7:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Scotland and 1 more | 114 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.