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Tornado Watch 754

November 29, 201012 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 29, 2010, 4:41 PM CST for 12 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 29, 2010, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Nov 29, 2010, 8:50 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 43 counties

Ascension Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
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
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 29, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WarningJANCopiah, Hinds, Simpson22 min
Nov 29, 8:03 PM CSTTornado WarningJANLeake, Madison, Rankin, Scott57 min
Nov 29, 8:08 PM CSTTornado WarningJANAttala, Carroll, Holmes, Yazoo67 min
Nov 29, 8:18 PM CSTTornado WarningJANHinds, Madison, Yazoo57 min
Nov 29, 8:41 PM CSTTornado WarningJANAttala, Choctaw, Winston64 min
Nov 29, 8:44 PM CSTTornado WarningJANClaiborne, Hinds, Warren, Yazoo61 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 2010-11-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2010-11-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 29, 1:02 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu and 27 more58 min
Nov 29, 1:31 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAcadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier and 31 more7 hr
Nov 29, 3:29 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Catahoula and 24 more91 min
Nov 29, 5:55 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, LaSalle and 4 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.