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Tornado Watch 60
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 23, 2025, 3:16 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2025, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2025, 10:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 81 counties
Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, 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, Dyer 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, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union | 37 min |
| Mar 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi | 45 min |
| Mar 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 29 min |
| Mar 23, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Tishomingo | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 22 min |
| Mar 23, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 39 min |
| Mar 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 45 min |
| Mar 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Panola, Yalobusha | 49 min |
| Mar 23, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 50 min |
| Mar 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 14 min |
| Mar 23, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Yalobusha | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 13 min |
| Mar 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Monroe | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 11 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 1:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 28 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 60 min |
| Mar 23, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Union | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 93 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.