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Tornado Watch 64
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT for 9 counties in Alabama; 8 parishes in Louisiana; 15 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 10:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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
- 60%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Saint Charles | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 19 min |
| Mar 22, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 38 min |
| Mar 22, 7:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Bernard | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 10 min |
| Mar 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Sumter, Tuscaloosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Perry | 19 min |
| Mar 22, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 87 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 17.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 9:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Clay and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 94 min |
| Mar 23, 4:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Geneva, Henry, Houston | 88 min |
| Mar 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 60 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2022Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2022Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 2022Every tornado watch in 2022
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.