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Tornado Watch 44

March 15, 20254 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 15, 2025, 5:58 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2025, 5:58 AM CDT (10:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 74 counties

Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Union County, AR, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, De Soto 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, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate 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, Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, McNairy County, TN

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:58 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 60%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
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 15, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	44 min
Mar 15, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	56 min
Mar 15, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn	56 min
Mar 15, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	49 min
Mar 15, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	60 min
Mar 15, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Desha, Drew	57 min
Mar 15, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	54 min
Mar 15, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate	44 min
Mar 15, 6:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Union	42 min
Mar 15, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	23 min
Mar 15, 6:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tate	50 min
Mar 15, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	62 min
Mar 15, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	34 min
Mar 15, 6:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie and 2 more	42 min
Mar 15, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Caldwell, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita and 2 more	53 min
Mar 15, 6:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	62 min
Mar 15, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	43 min
Mar 15, 7:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	54 min
Mar 15, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah	52 min
Mar 15, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn	49 min
Mar 15, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie and 2 more	49 min
Mar 15, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	46 min
Mar 15, 7:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	29 min
Mar 15, 7:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	23 min
Mar 15, 7:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Winn	37 min
Mar 15, 7:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita	32 min
Mar 15, 7:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	44 min
Mar 15, 7:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Winn	27 min
Mar 15, 7:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	56 min
Mar 15, 7:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica	54 min
Mar 15, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate	52 min
Mar 15, 7:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, McNairy	50 min
Mar 15, 7:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	4 hr
Mar 15, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	64 min
Mar 15, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	48 min
Mar 15, 8:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	23 min
Mar 15, 8:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Winn	24 min
Mar 15, 8:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Ouachita	31 min
Mar 15, 8:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	44 min
Mar 15, 8:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	31 min
Mar 15, 8:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate	3 hr
Mar 15, 8:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	31 min
Mar 15, 8:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar	4 hr
Mar 15, 8:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew	3 hr
Mar 15, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	41 min
Mar 15, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate and 1 more	40 min
Mar 15, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	67 min
Mar 15, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Marshall	52 min
Mar 15, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	49 min
Mar 15, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	61 min
Mar 15, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	57 min
Mar 15, 9:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	65 min
Mar 15, 9:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Union, Winn	3 hr
Mar 15, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	57 min
Mar 15, 9:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	3 hr
Mar 15, 9:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Ouachita	40 min
Mar 15, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	62 min
Mar 15, 9:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn	35 min
Mar 15, 9:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	55 min
Mar 15, 10:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower	53 min
Mar 15, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	45 min
Mar 15, 10:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington	64 min
Mar 15, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	44 min
Mar 15, 10:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas	42 min
Mar 15, 10:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	41 min
Mar 15, 10:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall	3 hr
Mar 15, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	64 min
Mar 15, 11:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington	36 min
Mar 15, 11:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower	67 min
Mar 15, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Tippah and 2 more	47 min
Mar 15, 11:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	57 min
Mar 15, 11:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Chicot	4 hr
Mar 15, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo	67 min
Mar 15, 11:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo	55 min
Mar 15, 11:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery	49 min
Mar 15, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	East Carroll	58 min
Mar 15, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	41 min
Mar 15, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	52 min
Mar 15, 12:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	51 min
Mar 15, 12:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Holmes, Montgomery and 1 more	59 min
Mar 15, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo	49 min
Mar 15, 12:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Montgomery and 1 more	4 hr
Mar 15, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union	16 min
Mar 15, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Leflore	46 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more	10 hr
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, 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 15, 10:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Franklin, Madison and 6 more	113 min
Mar 15, 10:31 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Ascension, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 14 more	9 hr
Mar 15, 11:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington	97 min
Mar 15, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Saint Helena, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	83 min
Mar 15, 12:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper and 14 more	86 min
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, 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, 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.