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Tornado Watch 79
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2022, 2:44 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2022, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2022, 8:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 61 counties
Alexander County, IL, Clay County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Daviess County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson, Wayne | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne | 14 min |
| Mar 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, White | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | White | 13 min |
| Mar 30, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 40 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 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, 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 30, 9:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clinton, Coles, DeWitt and 24 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 12 more | 88 min |
| Mar 30, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper | 5 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 |
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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.