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Tornado Watch 61
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2022, 10:40 AM CDT for 25 parishes in Louisiana; 58 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 83 counties
Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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
- 90%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 60%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 11:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 11:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 64 min |
| Mar 22, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Warren | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Leflore, Montgomery, Webster | 41 min |
| Mar 22, 11:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Yazoo | 66 min |
| Mar 22, 12:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo | 59 min |
| Mar 22, 12:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 12:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 59 min |
| Mar 22, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson | 56 min |
| Mar 22, 12:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott | 66 min |
| Mar 22, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin, Scott | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery, Webster | 66 min |
| Mar 22, 1:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Webster, Winston | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Simpson | 38 min |
| Mar 22, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake, Neshoba, Winston | 96 min |
| Mar 22, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Rankin, Scott, Smith | 78 min |
| Mar 22, 1:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Avoyelles, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 74 min |
| Mar 22, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 40 min |
| Mar 22, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Webster | 93 min |
| Mar 22, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 97 min |
| Mar 22, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 19 min |
| Mar 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 14 min |
| Mar 22, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale | 41 min |
| Mar 22, 4:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry, Wayne | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 100 min |
| Mar 22, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena | 35 min |
| Mar 22, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 18 min |
| Mar 22, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 38 min |
| Mar 22, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 41 min |
| Mar 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Saint Charles | 45 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 57 min |
| Mar 21, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Sabine, Webster | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo | 114 min |
| Mar 22, 1:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Webster | 97 min |
| Mar 22, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 20 more | 90 min |
| Mar 22, 7:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Cameron, Concordia, East Baton Rouge and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 116 min |
| Mar 22, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Orleans, Saint Charles and 6 more | 115 min |
| Mar 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Livingston, Orleans, Saint Helena, Saint James and 4 more | 87 min |
| Mar 22, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Grenada, Itawamba and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lowndes | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George | 7 hr |
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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.