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Tornado Watch 97
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2023, 5:58 PM CDT for Colbert County, Franklin County, Lauderdale County, Alabama; 22 counties in Mississippi; 40 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2023, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2023, 12:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Particularly dangerous situation
- Yes
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 65 counties
Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson 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, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
- 80%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Madison | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tunica | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll, Gibson, Henderson, Madison | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 51 min |
| Mar 31, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll | 10 min |
| Mar 31, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall, Tippah | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tunica | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Haywood | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Haywood | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Henry | 51 min |
| Mar 31, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 10:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tunica | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, McNairy | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Henderson | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate | 16 min |
| Mar 31, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Quitman | 15 min |
| Mar 31, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Robertson and 1 more | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, McNairy | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 18 min |
| Mar 31, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Decatur | 19 min |
| Mar 31, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Tippah | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson | 34 min |
| Apr 1, 12:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 16 min |
| Apr 1, 12:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
- Mesoscale Discussion 404 Tornado watch 94
- Mesoscale Discussion 409 Tornado watch 94
- Mesoscale Discussion 411 Severe potential...tornado watch likely
- Mesoscale Discussion 414 Tornado watch 94
- Mesoscale Discussion 415 Tornado watch 94
- Mesoscale Discussion 416 Severe potential...tornado watch likely
- Mesoscale Discussion 418 Tornado watch 97
- Mesoscale Discussion 420 Tornado watch 97
- Mesoscale Discussion 421 Tornado watch 97...99
- Mesoscale Discussion 422 Tornado watch 97...98
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 655 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 31, 5:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 1 more | 92 min |
| Mar 31, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman | 97 min |
| Mar 31, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Trigg | 93 min |
| Mar 31, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess and 18 more | 115 min |
| Mar 31, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 55 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Tunica | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola and 6 more | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Shelby, Tipton | 31 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.