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Tornado Watch 60

March 3, 20235 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 3, 2023, 6:24 AM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2023, 6:24 AM CST (12:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2023, 1:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 101 counties

Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:26 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: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
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: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 6:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	8 hr
Mar 3, 9:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade	6 hr
Mar 3, 9:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Graves, Hickman	34 min
Mar 3, 9:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence	63 min
Mar 3, 9:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo	20 min
Mar 3, 9:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion	76 min
Mar 3, 10:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 1 more	61 min
Mar 3, 10:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Walker, Winston	75 min
Mar 3, 10:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	52 min
Mar 3, 10:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Massac	61 min
Mar 3, 10:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	15 min
Mar 3, 10:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Montgomery	15 min
Mar 3, 10:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union	50 min
Mar 3, 10:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	35 min
Mar 3, 10:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Christian, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd	34 min
Mar 3, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Logan, Ohio	45 min
Mar 3, 11:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Morgan	21 min
Mar 3, 11:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	21 min
Mar 3, 11:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Massac, Pope	60 min
Mar 3, 11:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	44 min
Mar 3, 11:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Williamson	25 min
Mar 3, 11:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	HUN	Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall and 1 more	53 min
Mar 3, 11:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	11 min
Mar 3, 11:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	Jackson, Limestone, Madison	65 min
Mar 3, 11:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Butler, Hancock, Ohio	20 min
Mar 3, 11:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Marshall, Rutherford	34 min
Mar 3, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Davidson, Marshall, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and 1 more	47 min
Mar 3, 11:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline	46 min
Mar 3, 11:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Allen, Edmonson, Simpson, Warren	36 min
Mar 3, 11:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Trigg and 1 more	48 min
Mar 3, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Sumner	26 min
Mar 3, 11:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	21 min
Mar 3, 11:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Union and 1 more	65 min
Mar 3, 11:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren and 2 more	34 min
Mar 3, 12:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Union	28 min
Mar 3, 12:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 2 more	51 min
Mar 3, 12:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LMK	Butler, Logan, Ohio	49 min
Mar 3, 12:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	33 min
Mar 3, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Barren, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue	27 min
Mar 3, 12:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	41 min
Mar 3, 12:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Daviess, McLean	47 min
Mar 3, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Butler, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Ohio	50 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 624 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 822 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 4:01 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more	2 hr
Mar 3, 10:15 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 7 more	3 hr
Mar 3, 10:34 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb and 9 more	5 hr
Mar 3, 12:07 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 3 more	83 min
Mar 3, 11:07 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Gallatin, Saline, White	4 hr
Mar 3, 11:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess and 9 more	2 hr
Mar 3, 1:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell and 26 more	3 hr
Mar 3, 2:19 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell, Carroll and 26 more	4 hr
Mar 3, 3:53 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Greenup and 4 more	2 hr
Mar 2, 11:06 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bolivar, Coahoma, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower and 3 more	54 min
Mar 2, 11:51 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Holmes and 12 more	8 hr
Mar 3, 12:26 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bolivar, Coahoma, Humphreys, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey and 3 more	2 hr
Mar 3, 7:06 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Hinds, Holmes and 14 more	84 min
Mar 3, 1:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins and 3 more	93 min
Mar 3, 1:41 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 8 more	5 hr
Mar 3, 3:41 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cocke, Greene, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington	94 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.