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Tornado Watch 153
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 8, 2019, 2:16 PM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas; 12 parishes in Louisiana; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2019, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2019, 8:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper 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, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 52 min |
| May 8, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 34 min |
| May 8, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Montgomery, Walker | 46 min |
| May 8, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion, Morris | 61 min |
| May 8, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 40 min |
| May 8, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 16 min |
| May 8, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 41 min |
| May 8, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 39 min |
| May 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 48 min |
| May 8, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 37 min |
| May 8, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 60 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 24 min |
| May 8, 3:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 12 min |
| May 8, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 17 min |
| May 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 53 min |
| May 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Red River, Union and 1 more | 63 min |
| May 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 62 min |
| May 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 14 min |
| May 8, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn | 43 min |
| May 8, 5:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 3 hr |
| May 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 38 min |
| May 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn | 53 min |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Caldwell, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita and 1 more | 60 min |
| May 8, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 35 min |
| May 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Drew and 3 more | 117 min |
| May 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Union | 95 min |
| May 8, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River and 3 more | 53 min |
| May 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 21 more | 95 min |
| May 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith and 16 more | 67 min |
| May 7, 10:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 43 more | 58 min |
| May 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 12:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas and 20 more | 64 min |
| May 8, 6:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 38 more | 61 min |
| May 8, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 10:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 28 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 12:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 30 more | 84 min |
| May 8, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Fayette and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam and 19 more | 118 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.