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Tornado Watch 76

March 24, 20234 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 24, 2023, 5:20 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 2023, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2023, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 122 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Union County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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: 90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 70%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln	51 min
Mar 24, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	28 min
Mar 24, 5:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, White	3 hr
Mar 24, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Greene, Poinsett	47 min
Mar 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Woodruff	33 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, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	54 min
Mar 24, 6:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	3 hr
Mar 24, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson, Smith	64 min
Mar 24, 6:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Saline	2 hr
Mar 24, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	38 min
Mar 24, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	17 min
Mar 24, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	46 min
Mar 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	41 min
Mar 24, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	43 min
Mar 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	76 min
Mar 24, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	43 min
Mar 24, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	61 min
Mar 24, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	43 min
Mar 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, St. Francis	38 min
Mar 24, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi	34 min
Mar 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	26 min
Mar 24, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	62 min
Mar 24, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	42 min
Mar 24, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	25 min
Mar 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	23 min
Mar 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman, Tallahatchie	45 min
Mar 24, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	67 min
Mar 24, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Newton	49 min
Mar 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Marshall	48 min
Mar 24, 8:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto	3 hr
Mar 24, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	43 min
Mar 24, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more	38 min
Mar 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observed	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore	58 min
Mar 24, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union	40 min
Mar 24, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy, Madison	48 min
Mar 24, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedConsiderable damage threat	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery, Webster	58 min
Mar 24, 9:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	3 hr
Mar 24, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	39 min
Mar 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Union	48 min
Mar 24, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Union	23 min
Mar 24, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe	47 min
Mar 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	35 min
Mar 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Webster	41 min
Mar 24, 10:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	3 hr
Mar 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery, Webster	2 hr
Mar 24, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe	46 min
Mar 24, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	3 hr
Mar 24, 10:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe	38 min
Mar 24, 11:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	3 hr
Mar 24, 11:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MEG	Itawamba	8 min
Mar 24, 11:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	3 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 5.7

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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, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hempstead and 12 more	5 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, 5:28 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 24, 6:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Attala, Copiah, Hinds, Leake, Madison, Neshoba and 6 more	84 min

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.