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Tornado Watch 123

April 13, 2022Ashley County, Chicot County, Union County, Arkansas; 23 parishes in Louisiana; 47 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2022, 2:48 PM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Union County, Arkansas; 23 parishes in Louisiana; 47 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2022, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 10:52 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 73 counties

Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville 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, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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: 80%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia, Union	24 min
Apr 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	31 min
Apr 13, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	64 min
Apr 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	55 min
Apr 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	40 min
Apr 13, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	59 min
Apr 13, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Winn	28 min
Apr 13, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn	51 min
Apr 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Winn	50 min
Apr 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren, Yazoo	65 min
Apr 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds	57 min
Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	41 min
Apr 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Winn	35 min
Apr 13, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Winn	46 min
Apr 13, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	45 min
Apr 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	46 min
Apr 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	75 min
Apr 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	56 min
Apr 13, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	58 min
Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	50 min
Apr 13, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	79 min
Apr 13, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Grant, LaSalle	49 min
Apr 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	47 min
Apr 13, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	57 min
Apr 13, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	41 min
Apr 13, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin, Madison, Tensas	45 min
Apr 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	52 min
Apr 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	67 min
Apr 13, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	65 min
Apr 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott	23 min
Apr 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Leake, Madison, Yazoo	42 min
Apr 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Tensas	55 min
Apr 13, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Tensas	52 min
Apr 13, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Madison, Warren, Yazoo	46 min
Apr 13, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	49 min
Apr 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery	38 min
Apr 13, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake	54 min
Apr 13, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	48 min
Apr 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	47 min
Apr 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster	80 min
Apr 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake, Madison	50 min
Apr 13, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	64 min
Apr 13, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	45 min
Apr 13, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	44 min
Apr 13, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	39 min
Apr 13, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	35 min
Apr 13, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	20 min
Apr 13, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	45 min
Apr 13, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith	43 min
Apr 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Jasper, Smith	50 min
Apr 13, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	41 min
Apr 13, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	63 min
Apr 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton	64 min
Apr 13, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Winston	22 min
Apr 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Jones	60 min
Apr 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	60 min
Apr 13, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	49 min
Apr 13, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	45 min
Apr 13, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	33 min
Apr 13, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	53 min
Apr 13, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	39 min
Apr 13, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	42 min
Apr 13, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	26 min
Apr 13, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes	30 min
Apr 13, 9:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	119 min
Apr 13, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	50 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 55 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1394 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 411 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and 4 more	7 hr
Apr 12, 9:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more	96 min
Apr 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	2 hr
Apr 12, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	4 hr
Apr 13, 7:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Garland and 19 more	2 hr
Apr 13, 10:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 23 more	83 min
Apr 13, 10:37 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 36 more	6 hr
Apr 13, 10:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Fulton, Marion	56 min
Apr 13, 12:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 2 more	118 min
Apr 13, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 9 more	7 hr
Apr 13, 2:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 1 more	63 min
Apr 13, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chicot	84 min
Apr 13, 5:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Desha, Drew, Phillips	90 min
Apr 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 12 more	2 hr
Apr 13, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline and 4 more	5 hr
Apr 13, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison and 1 more	91 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2022 Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 2022 Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2022 Every tornado watch in 2022

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.