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Tornado Watch 181

May 5, 20227 counties in Arkansas; 10 parishes in Louisiana; 60 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 5, 2022, 10:13 AM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 10 parishes in Louisiana; 60 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2022, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2022, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 77 counties

Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 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: 40%
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: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	63 min
May 5, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	60 min
May 5, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	59 min
May 5, 12:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman	3 hr
May 5, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	57 min
May 5, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	53 min
May 5, 12:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill, McLennan, Navarro	3 hr
May 5, 12:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Sevier	3 hr
May 5, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	54 min
May 5, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion, Upshur	35 min
May 5, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, Navarro	31 min
May 5, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Wood	46 min
May 5, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	42 min
May 5, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion	43 min
May 5, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	62 min
May 5, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	29 min
May 5, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby	50 min
May 5, 1:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone	31 min
May 5, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	42 min
May 5, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Rusk	33 min
May 5, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone, Navarro	47 min
May 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller	57 min
May 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson	14 min
May 5, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Panola, Rusk	29 min
May 5, 2:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Smith, Upshur, Wood	3 hr
May 5, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	11 min
May 5, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union	65 min
May 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola	20 min
May 5, 2:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk	19 min
May 5, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson	27 min
May 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	47 min
May 5, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	45 min
May 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Gregg, Panola, Rusk, Smith	3 hr
May 5, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	41 min
May 5, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola	23 min
May 5, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Madison	29 min
May 5, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison	26 min
May 5, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Walker	25 min
May 5, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Houston, Madison, Walker	27 min
May 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	19 min
May 5, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	47 min
May 5, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Williamson	53 min
May 5, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Llano	65 min
May 5, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Houston, Madison, Walker	32 min
May 5, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	23 min
May 5, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker	37 min
May 5, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	31 min
May 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie	64 min
May 5, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	33 min
May 5, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk	29 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -336 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 1:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Sevier	2 hr
May 5, 12:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Crittenden, Desha and 7 more	2 hr
May 5, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 13 more	8 hr
May 5, 12:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union	63 min
May 5, 2:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Phillips	55 min
May 5, 3:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Columbia, Drew and 2 more	2 hr
May 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Desha, Drew, Phillips	94 min
May 5, 5:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jackson, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn	97 min
May 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Madison, Tensas	90 min
May 4, 7:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Edwards, Fisher, Glasscock, Haskell and 18 more	119 min
May 4, 7:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall and 4 more	84 min
May 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Frio and 7 more	5 hr
May 4, 9:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger	92 min
May 4, 9:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Crockett, Haskell, Irion, Jones and 8 more	28 min
May 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell and 7 more	6 hr
May 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bexar, Medina	90 min
May 4, 11:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Hardeman, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger	117 min
May 5, 9:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass and 21 more	2 hr
May 5, 1:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fannin, Lamar, Red River	87 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.