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Tornado Watch 558

October 29, 202211 parishes in Louisiana; 24 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 29, 2022, 12:26 PM CDT for 11 parishes in Louisiana; 24 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 29, 2022, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 2022, 9:41 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
0.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 35 counties

Jefferson Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Simpson 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
50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
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
40%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson38 min
Oct 29, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJackson47 min
Oct 29, 3:32 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLIXJackson28 min
Oct 29, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJackson50 min
Oct 29, 4:35 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLIXJackson12 min
Oct 29, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGeorge17 min
Oct 29, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJackson49 min
Oct 29, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJackson36 min
Oct 29, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBPerry, Stone45 min
Oct 29, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene, Perry46 min
Oct 29, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene, Perry, Wayne56 min
Oct 29, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene, Perry, Wayne39 min
Oct 29, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene, Wayne53 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 2022-10-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2022-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 12:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAscension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston and 11 more64 min
Oct 29, 3:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSaint Bernard92 min
Oct 29, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCWayne8 hr
Oct 29, 5:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeorge, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone97 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.