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Tornado Watch 92

March 3, 200825 parishes in Louisiana; 65 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 3, 2008, 2:25 PM CST for 25 parishes in Louisiana; 65 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2008, 2:25 PM CST (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2008, 12:59 AM CST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 90 counties

Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite	33 min
Mar 3, 4:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln	57 min
Mar 3, 4:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pike	23 min
Mar 3, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	26 min
Mar 3, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren	50 min
Mar 3, 4:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	34 min
Mar 3, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	65 min
Mar 3, 5:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey, Yazoo	43 min
Mar 3, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo	57 min
Mar 3, 5:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Walthall	39 min
Mar 3, 5:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	49 min
Mar 3, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	57 min
Mar 3, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	48 min
Mar 3, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	65 min
Mar 3, 6:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	33 min
Mar 3, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana	57 min
Mar 3, 7:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	23 min
Mar 3, 7:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	63 min
Mar 3, 7:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	3 hr
Mar 3, 8:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	33 min
Mar 3, 8:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	47 min
Mar 3, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	42 min
Mar 3, 8:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin, Scott	23 min
Mar 3, 8:56 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	3 hr
Mar 3, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	28 min
Mar 3, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Rankin, Scott, Smith	52 min
Mar 3, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	66 min
Mar 3, 9:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	34 min
Mar 3, 9:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion	48 min
Mar 3, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Walthall	20 min
Mar 3, 9:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	27 min
Mar 3, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Smith	50 min
Mar 3, 9:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith	45 min
Mar 3, 9:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Marion	30 min
Mar 3, 10:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton	54 min
Mar 3, 10:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jones	31 min
Mar 3, 10:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	54 min
Mar 3, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	67 min
Mar 3, 10:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	48 min
Mar 3, 10:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Jones	29 min
Mar 3, 10:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton	52 min
Mar 3, 10:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	49 min
Mar 3, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	33 min
Mar 3, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	51 min
Mar 3, 11:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	35 min
Mar 3, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	31 min
Mar 3, 11:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	32 min
Mar 3, 11:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	39 min
Mar 3, 11:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	25 min
Mar 3, 11:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	29 min
Mar 3, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	20 min
Mar 3, 11:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	67 min
Mar 4, 12:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	48 min
Mar 4, 12:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	36 min
Mar 4, 12:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	46 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 5:21 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	84 min
Mar 3, 6:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln and 5 more	6 hr
Mar 3, 10:18 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln and 5 more	87 min
Mar 3, 10:36 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier and 33 more	9 hr
Mar 3, 1:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 20 more	95 min
Mar 3, 5:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 19 more	62 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.