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Tornado Watch 36
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 7, 2022, 1:52 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2022, 1:52 AM CST (07:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2022, 6:43 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Perry County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler 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, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 14 min |
| Mar 7, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall | 25 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 10:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski, Union | 117 min |
| Mar 7, 1:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 1 more | 89 min |
| Mar 7, 4:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Calloway, Christian, Grayson, Hopkins and 5 more | 85 min |
| Mar 7, 4:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bracken, Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton | 115 min |
| Mar 7, 12:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 91 min |
| Mar 7, 1:07 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette and 12 more | 6 hr |
| 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.