Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 35
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 7, 2022, 1:07 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2022, 1:07 AM CST (07:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2022, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 55 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Washington County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 1:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 1:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 1:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland | 37 min |
| Mar 7, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 1:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 1:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 1:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 2:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha, Lincoln | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 2:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln | 30 min |
| Mar 7, 2:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Phillips | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 38 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1244 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 16.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 25 more | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Johnson, Logan, Marion and 2 more | 89 min |
| Mar 6, 10:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner and 22 more | 117 min |
| Mar 7, 12:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 18 more | 91 min |
| Mar 7, 2:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Phillips | 86 min |
| Mar 7, 1:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 89 min |
| Mar 7, 1:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 4:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Montgomery, Stewart | 85 min |
| Mar 7, 1:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson, Monroe and 4 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.