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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 128
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 29, 2016, 9:58 PM CDT for 9 counties in Arkansas; 14 parishes in Louisiana; 53 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2016, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2016, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 76 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, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Delta County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 66 min |
| Apr 29, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 10:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada, Sevier | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 30 min |
| Apr 29, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 12:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 12:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Leon | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 12:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 12:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 12:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 1:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Madison | 116 min |
| Apr 30, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity, Walker | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 2:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 4:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Sabine, San Augustine | 49 min |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and 4 more | 94 min |
| Apr 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Columbia, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 2 more | 93 min |
| Apr 30, 3:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Union | 97 min |
| Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Conway, Johnson, Logan, Marion and 5 more | 118 min |
| Apr 30, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu and 22 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 2 more | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 10:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge and 16 more | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 22 more | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 29 more | 83 min |
| Apr 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 19 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall and 3 more | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 5:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Fayette, Grimes, Harris and 7 more | 93 min |
| Apr 30, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 11 more | 6 hr |
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.