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Tornado Watch 126
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2022, 5:25 PM CDT for 10 parishes in Louisiana; Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2022, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 10 min |
| Apr 13, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 48 min |
| Apr 13, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Saint Landry | 36 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 450 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 9:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 8 more | 96 min |
| Apr 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 7:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Lincoln, Red River and 2 more | 83 min |
| Apr 13, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, De Soto and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant and 11 more | 84 min |
| Apr 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison and 1 more | 91 min |
| Apr 12, 8:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Leon, Madison, Robertson, Walker | 86 min |
| Apr 13, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Delta, Ellis, Falls, Fannin and 19 more | 93 min |
| Apr 13, 12:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Delta, Ellis, Falls, Fannin and 19 more | 97 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.