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Tornado Watch 887

September 3, 20088 counties in Arkansas; 28 parishes in Louisiana; 46 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 3, 2008, 5:58 PM CDT for 8 counties in Arkansas; 28 parishes in Louisiana; 46 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2008, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2008, 1:57 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 0.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 82 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Desha County, AR, Lee County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Ascension Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pike County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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: 20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 5%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 5%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Chicot	45 min
Sep 3, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	45 min
Sep 3, 6:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Jefferson and 6 more	6 hr
Sep 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula	23 min
Sep 3, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	42 min
Sep 3, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	55 min
Sep 3, 6:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Chicot	4 hr
Sep 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Catahoula	3 hr
Sep 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	45 min
Sep 3, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	64 min
Sep 3, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	52 min
Sep 3, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	14 min
Sep 3, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia, Madison, Tensas	3 hr
Sep 3, 10:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Franklin, Holmes, Humphreys, Jefferson and 5 more	2 hr
Sep 3, 11:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Grenada, Hinds and 7 more	3 hr
Sep 3, 11:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	15 min
Sep 4, 1:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Lincoln	3 hr

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
Sep 2, 11:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 6 more	3 hr
Sep 3, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chicot	2 hr
Sep 3, 12:39 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	6 hr
Sep 3, 3:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Union	116 min
Sep 3, 5:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lee and 2 more	96 min
Sep 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll and 22 more	2 hr
Sep 2, 11:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 13 more	7 hr
Sep 3, 3:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Evangeline, Franklin and 6 more	116 min
Sep 3, 6:21 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 14 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2008 Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 2008 Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2008 Every tornado watch in 2008

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.