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Tornado Watch 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 24, 2023, 1:33 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2023, 1:33 PM CDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 51 counties
Clark County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, McCurtain County, OK, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Morris, Red River, Titus | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier | 43 min |
| Mar 24, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Newton, Perry, Pope and 2 more | 42 min |
| Mar 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Newton, Polk, Scott and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada | 34 min |
| Mar 24, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Perry, Pope, Saline, Searcy and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring | 17 min |
| Mar 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 26 min |
| Mar 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Pike | 52 min |
| Mar 24, 4:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline, White | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 27 min |
| Mar 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring, Saline | 36 min |
| Mar 24, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Pulaski, Saline | 16 min |
| Mar 24, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Saline | 2 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 25 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 26 more | 61 min |
| Mar 24, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence and 4 more | 62 min |
| Mar 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha | 96 min |
| Mar 24, 5:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Saint Landry and 2 more | 88 min |
| Mar 23, 9:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Garvin, Hughes and 9 more | 118 min |
| Mar 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 24, 1:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Love, Marshall | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan | 119 min |
| Mar 24, 6:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Irion, Mitchell, Nolan and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 13 more | 5 hr |
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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.