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Tornado Watch 75

March 24, 20234 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie, Morris, Red River, Titus41 min
Mar 24, 2:47 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier43 min
Mar 24, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Montgomery, Newton, Perry, Pope and 2 more42 min
Mar 24, 3:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Montgomery, Newton, Polk, Scott and 1 more3 hr
Mar 24, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada34 min
Mar 24, 3:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Montgomery, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 1 more3 hr
Mar 24, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Pike47 min
Mar 24, 4:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway, Garland, Perry, Pope, Saline, Searcy and 2 more3 hr
Mar 24, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Garland, Hot Spring17 min
Mar 24, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHempstead, Nevada26 min
Mar 24, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline47 min
Mar 24, 4:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Perry, Pulaski and 2 more3 hr
Mar 24, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Pike52 min
Mar 24, 4:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline, White3 hr
Mar 24, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring27 min
Mar 24, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Hot Spring, Saline36 min
Mar 24, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union25 min
Mar 24, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Pulaski, Saline16 min
Mar 24, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline28 min
Mar 24, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland, Dallas, Grant29 min
Mar 24, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson33 min
Mar 24, 6:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Saline2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 301 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 12:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 25 more3 hr
Mar 24, 3:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 26 more61 min
Mar 24, 3:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 18 more2 hr
Mar 24, 4:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 7 more2 hr
Mar 24, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 20 more8 hr
Mar 24, 5:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCraighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence and 4 more62 min
Mar 24, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshley, Chicot, Desha96 min
Mar 24, 5:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Saint Landry and 2 more88 min
Mar 23, 9:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Garvin, Hughes and 9 more118 min
Mar 23, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more8 hr
Mar 24, 1:11 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Love, Marshall2 hr
Mar 24, 3:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan119 min
Mar 24, 6:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha2 hr
Mar 23, 9:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoke, Crockett, Fisher, Irion, Mitchell, Nolan and 6 more3 hr
Mar 24, 4:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBosque, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 13 more5 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.