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Tornado Watch 330
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 27, 2024, 1:10 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2024, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2024, 6:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 79 counties
Blount County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Murray County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery 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, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
38 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin, Tensas | 55 min |
| May 27, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo | 64 min |
| May 27, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Limestone, Madison | 62 min |
| May 27, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 44 min |
| May 27, 1:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 33 min |
| May 27, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 56 min |
| May 27, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 40 min |
| May 27, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas | 40 min |
| May 27, 1:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 39 min |
| May 27, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 37 min |
| May 27, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Lee, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah and 1 more | 52 min |
| May 27, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 62 min |
| May 27, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Madison | 65 min |
| May 27, 2:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 48 min |
| May 27, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 48 min |
| May 27, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Scott, Yazoo | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 34 min |
| May 27, 2:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 26 min |
| May 27, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lee, Marshall, Prentiss and 3 more | 68 min |
| May 27, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 27 min |
| May 27, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 57 min |
| May 27, 3:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 26 min |
| May 27, 3:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 27, 3:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 35 min |
| May 27, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 59 min |
| May 27, 3:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Madison, Marshall | 25 min |
| May 27, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 35 min |
| May 27, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall, Morgan | 48 min |
| May 27, 3:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 30 min |
| May 27, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 34 min |
| May 27, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield | 24 min |
| May 27, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cherokee, Etowah | 50 min |
| May 27, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Marshall | 33 min |
| May 27, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 22 min |
| May 27, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 13 min |
| May 27, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Marshall | 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 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 3524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Fayette and 12 more | 113 min |
| May 27, 2:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 18 more | 118 min |
| May 27, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 13 more | 94 min |
| May 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 5 more | 94 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 8:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 84 min |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner, Jackson and 12 more | 94 min |
| May 26, 10:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Hempstead and 6 more | 113 min |
| May 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 5:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clarke and 45 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Carroll, Clarke and 49 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 9:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke, Columbia and 31 more | 88 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 36 more | 96 min |
| May 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 70 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 4 more | 55 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.