Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2022, 5:30 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2022, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 101 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
51 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Red River, Titus | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 6:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 22 min |
| Mar 30, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 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, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 6:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Smith and 1 more | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 7:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 7:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 8:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott and 1 more | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Pope and 2 more | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 9:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Greene, Stone, Webster, Wright | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Texas | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 10:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Shannon, Texas | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 11:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Winn | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Red River, Winn | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Winn | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 12:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 51 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia and 36 more | 2 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 30, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orleans, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany | 119 min |
| Mar 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 7 more | 85 min |
| Mar 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Jasper, Newton, Vernon | 95 min |
| Mar 30, 9:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Knox, Wichita and 1 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 |
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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.