Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 1, 2022, 1:30 PM CST for 15 counties in Arkansas; 14 parishes in Louisiana; 50 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2022, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2022, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 79 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
- 40%
- 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Panola | 46 min |
| Jan 1, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah, Union | 39 min |
| Jan 1, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Tishomingo | 18 min |
| Jan 1, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 39 min |
| Jan 1, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 17 min |
| Jan 1, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Winston | 52 min |
| Jan 1, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 60 min |
| Jan 1, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha | 60 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 9:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Garland and 24 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 31, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring and 26 more | 353 days |
| Dec 31, 11:57 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 2:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Independence, Jackson and 4 more | 113 min |
| Jan 1, 11:37 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 5 more | 113 min |
| Jan 1, 1:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 15 more | 93 min |
| Jan 1, 3:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomingo and 1 more | 93 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.