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Tornado Watch 75

March 30, 20224 states

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.

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
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 6:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin, Red River, Titus39 min
Mar 30, 6:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster37 min
Mar 30, 6:12 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKPolk, Scott48 min
Mar 30, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone31 min
Mar 30, 6:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTaney22 min
Mar 30, 6:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward, Little River, Sevier43 min
Mar 30, 6:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie, Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus and 2 more55 min
Mar 30, 6:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLZKLogan, Scott52 min
Mar 30, 6:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas, Ozark, Taney51 min
Mar 30, 6:56 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKPolk, Scott49 min
Mar 30, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Polk, Scott52 min
Mar 30, 7:18 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKMontgomery, Polk, Scott42 min
Mar 30, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Newton34 min
Mar 30, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Smith and 1 more49 min
Mar 30, 7:34 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKMontgomery, Polk25 min
Mar 30, 7:35 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVHoward25 min
Mar 30, 7:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Scott, Yell46 min
Mar 30, 7:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River46 min
Mar 30, 7:52 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope23 min
Mar 30, 7:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy48 min
Mar 30, 8:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott and 1 more44 min
Mar 30, 8:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie, Cass, Morris40 min
Mar 30, 8:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris30 min
Mar 30, 8:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Pope, Yell47 min
Mar 30, 8:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy44 min
Mar 30, 8:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren51 min
Mar 30, 8:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Garland, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Pope and 2 more19 min
Mar 30, 9:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFChristian, Douglas, Greene, Stone, Webster, Wright4 hr
Mar 30, 9:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Boone, Fulton, Marion, Newton, Searcy49 min
Mar 30, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFOzark45 min
Mar 30, 9:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more26 min
Mar 30, 9:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby36 min
Mar 30, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas, Howell, Texas46 min
Mar 30, 9:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFOzark20 min
Mar 30, 10:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFDouglas, Howell, Ozark, Shannon, Texas6 hr
Mar 30, 10:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto47 min
Mar 30, 10:55 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster50 min
Mar 30, 11:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine44 min
Mar 30, 11:21 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River39 min
Mar 30, 11:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Winn56 min
Mar 30, 11:51 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Sabine39 min
Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Red River, Winn33 min
Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Jackson, Lincoln43 min
Mar 30, 12:07 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn38 min
Mar 30, 12:08 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Winn52 min
Mar 30, 12:28 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union34 min
Mar 30, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant, Natchitoches, Winn40 min
Mar 30, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVGrant, Natchitoches40 min
Mar 30, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant, Winn27 min
Mar 30, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion57 min
Mar 30, 12:54 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVJackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union51 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2022-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2022-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 11:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more8 hr
Mar 30, 4:57 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia and 36 more2 hr
Mar 30, 9:44 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Fulton, Greene, Independence, Izard, Jackson and 3 more2 hr
Mar 30, 10:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 12 more61 min
Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 25 more9 hr
Mar 30, 12:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChicot58 min
Mar 30, 2:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more119 min
Mar 30, 11:26 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAcadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more8 hr
Mar 30, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAscension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more9 hr
Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAscension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 10 more2 hr
Mar 30, 6:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCOrleans, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany119 min
Mar 29, 7:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 7 more85 min
Mar 29, 10:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Jasper, Newton, Vernon95 min
Mar 30, 9:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis117 min
Mar 30, 12:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry and 3 more2 hr
Mar 30, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry and 3 more6 hr
Mar 29, 8:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Knox, Wichita and 1 more95 min
Mar 29, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 30 more5 hr
Mar 29, 11:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 18 more88 min
Mar 30, 1:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Collin, Comanche, Concho, Cooke and 26 more119 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.