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Tornado Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 2023, 10:11 PM CST for 5 counties in Arkansas; 7 counties in Mississippi; 10 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2023, 10:11 PM CST (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2023, 2:59 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 22 counties
Crittenden County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 40 min |
| Jan 2, 10:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Phillips | 19 min |
| Jan 3, 1:16 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis | 8 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson, Henry, Obion, Weakley | 34 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 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 6:01 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 23 more | 89 min |
| Jan 2, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 2, 7:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene | 96 min |
| Jan 2, 8:31 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Crittenden, Desha and 5 more | 89 min |
| Jan 2, 8:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Grant and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 11:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 15 more | 118 min |
| Jan 3, 1:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Phillips and 1 more | 114 min |
| Jan 3, 2:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Phillips, Union | 8 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:56 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 3, 9:14 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 3, 11:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Jones, Wayne | 97 min |
| Jan 3, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 38 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson, Henry and 14 more | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.