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Tornado Watch 36

March 14, 20257 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2025, 7:34 PM CDT for 7 states. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2025, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Particularly dangerous situation: Yes
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 113 counties

Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, 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, 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, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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: 90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 80%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 80%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Carter	51 min
Mar 14, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Carter	15 min
Mar 14, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley, Wayne	48 min
Mar 14, 10:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Wayne	26 min
Mar 14, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Ripley	41 min
Mar 14, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Carter, Wayne	39 min
Mar 14, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Butler, Ripley	47 min
Mar 14, 11:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Wayne	38 min
Mar 14, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Butler, Ripley	44 min
Mar 14, 11:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MEG	Clay, Greene	42 min
Mar 14, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Jackson	39 min
Mar 14, 11:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jackson	51 min
Mar 14, 11:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	46 min
Mar 14, 11:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	53 min
Mar 14, 11:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Jackson, Union	52 min
Mar 14, 11:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard, Wayne	43 min
Mar 14, 11:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay	50 min
Mar 14, 11:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler	26 min
Mar 14, 11:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Perry, Williamson	46 min
Mar 15, 12:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene	45 min
Mar 15, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	52 min
Mar 15, 12:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Williamson	51 min
Mar 15, 12:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	51 min
Mar 15, 12:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	48 min
Mar 15, 12:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jefferson, Perry	27 min
Mar 15, 12:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	66 min
Mar 15, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	29 min
Mar 15, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Jackson, Johnson, Union, Williamson	43 min
Mar 15, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Lee, St. Francis	39 min
Mar 15, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	48 min
Mar 15, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	33 min
Mar 15, 12:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson	46 min
Mar 15, 12:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	38 min
Mar 15, 12:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	51 min
Mar 15, 12:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pulaski, Union	32 min
Mar 15, 1:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton	39 min
Mar 15, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	48 min
Mar 15, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Hamilton, Wabash, Wayne, White	57 min
Mar 15, 1:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	27 min
Mar 15, 1:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc	52 min
Mar 15, 1:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson	49 min
Mar 15, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski	42 min
Mar 15, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dunklin, Pemiscot	31 min
Mar 15, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	26 min
Mar 15, 1:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne	40 min
Mar 15, 1:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	24 min
Mar 15, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	47 min
Mar 15, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	16 min
Mar 15, 1:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Gallatin, Saline, White	52 min
Mar 15, 1:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	52 min
Mar 15, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope	40 min
Mar 15, 2:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	50 min
Mar 15, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander	31 min
Mar 15, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Massac	45 min
Mar 15, 2:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	White	40 min
Mar 15, 2:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken, Marshall	33 min
Mar 15, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin	42 min
Mar 15, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope	39 min
Mar 15, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike	45 min
Mar 15, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	43 min
Mar 15, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken and 1 more	50 min
Mar 15, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken	34 min
Mar 15, 2:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Vanderburgh, Warrick	32 min
Mar 15, 2:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	16 min
Mar 15, 3:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Gibson, Pike	26 min
Mar 15, 3:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon	24 min
Mar 15, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean and 2 more	47 min
Mar 15, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	45 min
Mar 15, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Pike, Spencer, Warrick	49 min
Mar 15, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon	39 min
Mar 15, 3:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Webster	27 min
Mar 15, 3:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon	11 min
Mar 15, 4:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	42 min
Mar 15, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Henderson, Hopkins, Webster	38 min
Mar 15, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	52 min
Mar 15, 4:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Pontotoc	43 min
Mar 15, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Spencer	47 min
Mar 15, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	38 min
Mar 15, 4:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PAH	Spencer	32 min
Mar 15, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	41 min
Mar 15, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Lee, St. Francis	49 min
Mar 15, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	33 min
Mar 15, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, McLean	42 min
Mar 15, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett, St. Francis	20 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 7:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	2 hr
Mar 14, 7:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton, Independence and 10 more	2 hr
Mar 14, 8:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chicot, Desha	2 hr
Mar 14, 8:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence and 11 more	2 hr
Mar 14, 9:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 10 more	2 hr
Mar 14, 9:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 14 more	7 hr
Mar 14, 10:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Greene, Randolph, Sharp	115 min
Mar 14, 10:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Faulkner, Greene, Independence and 9 more	63 min
Mar 14, 11:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 10 more	96 min
Mar 14, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more	115 min
Mar 15, 4:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 7 more	86 min
Mar 15, 5:58 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Union	7 hr
Mar 15, 8:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Desha	86 min
Mar 15, 9:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Phillips	95 min
Mar 14, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 38 more	7 hr
Mar 14, 8:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox and 5 more	114 min
Mar 14, 8:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair	88 min
Mar 14, 9:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 21 more	84 min
Mar 14, 11:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Jo Daviess, Kane and 10 more	2 hr
Mar 14, 11:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 20 more	63 min
Mar 15, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more	5 hr
Mar 15, 1:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clark, Crawford and 35 more	96 min
Mar 15, 1:36 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clinton and 36 more	6 hr
Mar 15, 2:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 33 more	87 min
Mar 15, 7:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Grant and 10 more	86 min
Mar 15, 12:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper and 14 more	86 min
Mar 15, 10:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Amite, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 54 more	113 min
Mar 15, 10:31 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Adams, Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Calhoun and 61 more	9 hr
Mar 15, 11:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	George, Greene, Jackson, Stone	86 min
Mar 15, 11:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 18 more	85 min
Mar 15, 11:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Amite, Attala, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 24 more	97 min
Mar 15, 12:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	9 hr
Mar 15, 12:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion, Walthall	54 min
Mar 15, 1:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee and 6 more	89 min
Mar 15, 1:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 11 more	119 min
Mar 15, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 12 more	83 min
Mar 15, 3:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Jasper and 12 more	2 hr
Mar 15, 3:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hancock, Harrison, Jackson	95 min
Mar 15, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Perry and 2 more	3 hr
Mar 15, 2:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman and 17 more	87 min
Mar 15, 2:34 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Hickman and 10 more	4 hr
Mar 15, 12:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 31 more	60 min
Mar 15, 12:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 31 more	8 hr
Mar 15, 2:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 21 more	90 min
Mar 15, 3:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 29 more	94 min
Mar 15, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Hamilton and 12 more	7 hr
Mar 15, 6:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cumberland, Hamilton, Loudon and 9 more	114 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.