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Tornado Watch 69
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 16, 2023, 6:17 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2023, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2023, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 54 counties
Clark County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, McCurtain County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Falls County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Milam County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Rockwall, Van Zandt | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 66 min |
| Mar 16, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam | 54 min |
| Mar 16, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 38 min |
| Mar 16, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith | 56 min |
| Mar 16, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Smith | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Smith | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 65 min |
| Mar 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk, Smith | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 25 min |
| Mar 16, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Sabine | 38 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
- Mesoscale Discussion 292 Severe potential...watch possible
- Mesoscale Discussion 295 Tornado watch 68
- Mesoscale Discussion 296 Tornado watch 68
- Mesoscale Discussion 297 Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Mesoscale Discussion 298 Tornado watch 69
- Mesoscale Discussion 299 Tornado watch 69
- Mesoscale Discussion 300 Tornado watch 69
- Mesoscale Discussion 301 Tornado watch 69...70
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Polk and 1 more | 97 min |
| Mar 16, 10:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Creek, Grady and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 13 more | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson and 5 more | 117 min |
| Mar 16, 2:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Falls, Fayette and 13 more | 117 min |
| Mar 16, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallas, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 4:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Hill and 3 more | 65 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.