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Tornado Watch 782
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 29, 2009, 1:14 PM CDT for 9 counties in Arkansas; 19 parishes in Louisiana; 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 29, 2009, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2009, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 57 counties
Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Cass County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
53 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 29 min |
| Oct 29, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln, Union | 26 min |
| Oct 29, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lincoln, Union | 23 min |
| Oct 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lincoln, Union | 27 min |
| Oct 29, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 35 min |
| Oct 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 26 min |
| Oct 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Panola | 13 min |
| Oct 29, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 39 min |
| Oct 29, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 34 min |
| Oct 29, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, Trinity | 46 min |
| Oct 29, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 44 min |
| Oct 29, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk, Trinity | 38 min |
| Oct 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola, Shelby | 51 min |
| Oct 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 36 min |
| Oct 29, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 14 min |
| Oct 29, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches | 50 min |
| Oct 29, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 43 min |
| Oct 29, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 25 min |
| Oct 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Shelby | 47 min |
| Oct 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 28 min |
| Oct 29, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Oct 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 41 min |
| Oct 29, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia | 4 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 37 min |
| Oct 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Oct 29, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker | 26 min |
| Oct 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 38 min |
| Oct 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Panola, Shelby | 46 min |
| Oct 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Rusk | 4 hr |
| Oct 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 4 hr |
| Oct 29, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 33 min |
| Oct 29, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 48 min |
| Oct 29, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 41 min |
| Oct 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 2 more | 65 min |
| Oct 29, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Walker, Waller | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 47 min |
| Oct 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 47 min |
| Oct 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 25 min |
| Oct 29, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 34 min |
| Oct 29, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris, Waller | 29 min |
| Oct 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 27 min |
| Oct 29, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 41 min |
| Oct 29, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 17 min |
| Oct 29, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Oct 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 32 min |
| Oct 29, 7:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 8 hr |
| Oct 29, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 36 min |
| Oct 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 8:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine | 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 29, 1:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Washington | 2 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 23 more | 117 min |
| Oct 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 66 min |
| Oct 29, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 10:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto and 7 more | 117 min |
| Oct 28, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 11 more | 93 min |
| Oct 29, 1:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Callahan, Clay, Collin and 25 more | 53 min |
| Oct 29, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 29, 1:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Eastland, Erath and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 29 more | 95 min |
| Oct 29, 5:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes and 13 more | 86 min |
| Oct 29, 5:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson and 7 more | 89 min |
| Oct 29, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Camp, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Delta, Franklin, Freestone and 16 more | 57 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.