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Tornado Watch 77

March 30, 20225 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2022, 12:16 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2022, 12:16 PM CDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2022, 9:19 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 140 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Union County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Adams County, MS, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 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: 95%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
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: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

106 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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
Mar 30, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	56 min
Mar 30, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Winn	41 min
Mar 30, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	54 min
Mar 30, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Ouachita	13 min
Mar 30, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin, Richland	67 min
Mar 30, 1:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	53 min
Mar 30, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle	30 min
Mar 30, 1:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	56 min
Mar 30, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Chicot	62 min
Mar 30, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	32 min
Mar 30, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia, Franklin, Madison, Tensas	39 min
Mar 30, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Greene, Poinsett	50 min
Mar 30, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	32 min
Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	74 min
Mar 30, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	36 min
Mar 30, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	68 min
Mar 30, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett	14 min
Mar 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	50 min
Mar 30, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	19 min
Mar 30, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Tensas	63 min
Mar 30, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington, Yazoo	61 min
Mar 30, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	9 min
Mar 30, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia, Tensas	56 min
Mar 30, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	24 min
Mar 30, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	33 min
Mar 30, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	44 min
Mar 30, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	70 min
Mar 30, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	53 min
Mar 30, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	49 min
Mar 30, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson	44 min
Mar 30, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo	54 min
Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	51 min
Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	51 min
Mar 30, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	21 min
Mar 30, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore	73 min
Mar 30, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	66 min
Mar 30, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	48 min
Mar 30, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Madison	61 min
Mar 30, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden	41 min
Mar 30, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	39 min
Mar 30, 4:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Warren	97 min
Mar 30, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	23 min
Mar 30, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	52 min
Mar 30, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	66 min
Mar 30, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	60 min
Mar 30, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Holmes, Montgomery, Webster	58 min
Mar 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake, Madison	56 min
Mar 30, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada, Montgomery	55 min
Mar 30, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	48 min
Mar 30, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	45 min
Mar 30, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall, Tate	24 min
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	37 min
Mar 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott and 1 more	48 min
Mar 30, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott	41 min
Mar 30, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	36 min
Mar 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah and 1 more	48 min
Mar 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha, Webster	55 min
Mar 30, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss and 2 more	39 min
Mar 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Leake, Neshoba, Winston	54 min
Mar 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	50 min
Mar 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union	35 min
Mar 30, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake	26 min
Mar 30, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc	25 min
Mar 30, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	36 min
Mar 30, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith	46 min
Mar 30, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	36 min
Mar 30, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Union	49 min
Mar 30, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	46 min
Mar 30, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	27 min
Mar 30, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Clay, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster, Winston	55 min
Mar 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	46 min
Mar 30, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	24 min
Mar 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc	27 min
Mar 30, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 2 more	15 min
Mar 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith	61 min
Mar 30, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	53 min
Mar 30, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo	66 min
Mar 30, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	64 min
Mar 30, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	27 min
Mar 30, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Smith	41 min
Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha	82 min
Mar 30, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Marion	51 min
Mar 30, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith	41 min
Mar 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	34 min
Mar 30, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	63 min
Mar 30, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	44 min
Mar 30, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	53 min
Mar 30, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	66 min
Mar 30, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	35 min
Mar 30, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	59 min
Mar 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	73 min
Mar 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	34 min
Mar 30, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	30 min
Mar 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	26 min
Mar 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	47 min
Mar 30, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	15 min
Mar 30, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	18 min
Mar 30, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	17 min
Mar 30, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	50 min
Mar 30, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	14 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 60 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 398 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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, 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, 12:47 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 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clarke, Forrest, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson and 8 more	2 hr
Mar 30, 5:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcorn, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba and 17 more	91 min
Mar 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 8 more	86 min
Mar 30, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 3 more	9 hr
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 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, Dickson and 21 more	8 hr
Mar 30, 5:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Montgomery	88 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.