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Tornado Watch 74
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 29, 2022, 11:52 PM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 35 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2022, 11:52 PM CDT (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2022, 8:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 70 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 4:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 5:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 5:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 6:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus and 2 more | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Smith and 1 more | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 46 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 4:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 50 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Fulton, Greene, Independence, Izard, Jackson and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 12 more | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 25 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 2:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more | 119 min |
| Mar 29, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 22 more | 95 min |
| Mar 29, 8:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Grant, Kay | 83 min |
| Mar 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Craig and 21 more | 95 min |
| Mar 29, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 18 more | 88 min |
| Mar 30, 1:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Collin, Comanche, Concho, Cooke and 26 more | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.