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Tornado Watch 223
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 3, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT for 9 parishes in Louisiana; 13 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2007, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 22 counties
Avoyelles Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 37 min |
| May 3, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 51 min |
| May 3, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 36 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln and 3 more | 96 min |
| May 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Grant and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 11:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Natchitoches and 4 more | 96 min |
| May 3, 1:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Grant and 8 more | 84 min |
| May 3, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto, Grant and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll | 59 min |
| May 3, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | East Carroll | 3 hr |
| May 3, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto, Grant and 4 more | 116 min |
| May 3, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale and 10 more | 53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.