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Tornado Watch 54
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2019, 2:20 PM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 13 parishes in Louisiana; 30 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2019, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2019, 11:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 45 counties
Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 60%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Franklin | 43 min |
| Apr 13, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Morehouse, Richland | 66 min |
| Apr 13, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 58 min |
| Apr 13, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland | 26 min |
| Apr 13, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 55 min |
| Apr 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 48 min |
| Apr 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 63 min |
| Apr 13, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Tensas | 48 min |
| Apr 13, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 25 min |
| Apr 13, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 23 min |
| Apr 13, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 63 min |
| Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo | 15 min |
| Apr 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake, Madison, Yazoo | 43 min |
| Apr 13, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 11 min |
| Apr 13, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 54 min |
| Apr 13, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 21 min |
| Apr 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake, Madison | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake | 117 min |
| Apr 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson | 83 min |
| Apr 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Tensas | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake | 38 min |
| Apr 13, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 23 min |
| Apr 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Winston | 37 min |
| Apr 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 37 min |
| Apr 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 28 min |
| Apr 13, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion | 58 min |
| Apr 13, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 9:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott, Simpson, Smith | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 31 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 515 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 933 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 96 min |
| Apr 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 20 more | 113 min |
| Apr 13, 9:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River and 2 more | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Vernon | 83 min |
| Apr 13, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas, West Carroll | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Catahoula, De Soto, Grant and 7 more | 97 min |
| Apr 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Franklin, Grant, LaSalle, Madison, Richland and 2 more | 55 min |
| Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Neshoba, Newton and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Leake, Madison, Yazoo | 62 min |
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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.