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Tornado Watch 22
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 7, 2026, 3:19 AM CST for 35 counties in Arkansas; Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2026, 3:19 AM CST (09:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2026, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 43 counties
Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:21 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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 34 min |
| Mar 7, 3:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 4:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 4:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 4:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nevada | 23 min |
| Mar 7, 5:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada | 38 min |
| Mar 7, 5:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nevada | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 6:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 6:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 7:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Izard, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp | 25 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 9:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:24 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 43 more | 96 min |
| Mar 7, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 7, 12:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 86 min |
| Mar 7, 12:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coke, Coleman and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal and 20 more | 88 min |
| Mar 7, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 34 more | 6 hr |
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.