Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 262
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2014, 2:19 PM CDT for 16 counties in Arkansas; 26 parishes in Louisiana; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2014, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 50 counties
Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Panola County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Drew | 20 min |
| Jun 8, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Lincoln, Union | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Little River, Miller | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Ouachita, Union | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 75 min |
| Jun 8, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Little River, Miller | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 60 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
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2072 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 9:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Little River, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Columbia, Union | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 1:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 8 more | 83 min |
| Jun 7, 7:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Montague and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Foard and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 22 more | 85 min |
| Jun 7, 11:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Martin and 2 more | 92 min |
| Jun 8, 2:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Clay and 33 more | 118 min |
| Jun 8, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Fisher, Gaines and 16 more | 118 min |
| Jun 8, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Ector and 27 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham | 8 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Cochran, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam, Hartley, Sherman | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brewster, Concho, Coryell, Crockett, Hamilton and 14 more | 86 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2014
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.