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Tornado Watch 335

June 6, 201914 parishes in Louisiana; 12 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2019, 9:40 AM CDT for 14 parishes in Louisiana; 12 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2019, 9:40 AM CDT (14:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2019, 3:38 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 26 counties

Ascension Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
20%
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
30%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 9:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche, Terrebonne28 min
Jun 6, 9:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLIXLivingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa3 hr
Jun 6, 9:54 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXAscension, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist36 min
Jun 6, 9:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension, Assumption, Lafourche, Livingston, Saint Charles, Saint James and 3 more48 min
Jun 6, 10:13 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXAscension, Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa32 min
Jun 6, 10:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche, Saint Charles, Terrebonne31 min
Jun 6, 10:37 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXLafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist23 min
Jun 6, 10:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa50 min
Jun 6, 10:42 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXSaint John the Baptist33 min
Jun 6, 11:01 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXSaint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa29 min
Jun 6, 11:46 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXSaint Tammany, Tangipahoa29 min
Jun 6, 12:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard36 min
Jun 6, 12:13 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJefferson, Orleans34 min
Jun 6, 12:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXOrleans, Saint Bernard23 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2679 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.3
Supercell composite
11.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 11:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 1 more93 min
Jun 6, 2:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion2 hr
Jun 6, 9:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAscension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 8 more60 min
Jun 6, 12:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCOrleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany, Washington84 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.