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Tornado Watch 81
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2025, 11:05 PM CDT for 13 counties in Alabama; 31 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2025, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2025, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Tippah | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah, Tishomingo | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Leflore, Sunflower | 64 min |
| Mar 31, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 18 min |
| Mar 31, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower, Washington | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Leflore, Montgomery | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 52 min |
| Mar 31, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Montgomery and 2 more | 60 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 16.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman and 21 more | 114 min |
| Mar 31, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 5 more | 95 min |
| Mar 31, 6:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa and 2 more | 86 min |
| Mar 31, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Russell | 116 min |
| Mar 31, 10:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin and 25 more | 89 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.