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Tornado Watch 188

April 25, 200715 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2007, 1:46 PM CDT for 15 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 2007, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 2007, 7:12 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties

Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, West Carroll43 min
Apr 25, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula, Franklin, Tensas46 min
Apr 25, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll, Madison, Richland, West Carroll40 min
Apr 25, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison, Tensas65 min
Apr 25, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll38 min
Apr 25, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena, Warren48 min
Apr 25, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHumphreys, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington43 min
Apr 25, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo26 min
Apr 25, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeflore14 min
Apr 25, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake, Neshoba23 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2007-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 90 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2007-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 2:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 6 more65 min
Apr 25, 9:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 7 more60 min
Apr 25, 9:13 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAcadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more8 hr
Apr 25, 1:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCatahoula, Concordia, East Feliciana, Franklin, Madison, Tensas and 1 more67 min
Apr 25, 3:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 6 more55 min
Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Webster90 min
Apr 25, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 20 more95 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.