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Tornado Watch 588

December 14, 202213 counties in Alabama; 23 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 14, 2022, 12:22 PM CST for 13 counties in Alabama; 23 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2022, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Dec 14, 2022, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Particularly dangerous situation: Yes
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 67 counties

Baldwin County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Perry County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wayne County, MS

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 95%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 80%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 12:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	35 min
Dec 14, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	34 min
Dec 14, 12:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Jones	62 min
Dec 14, 12:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	54 min
Dec 14, 12:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	66 min
Dec 14, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa	28 min
Dec 14, 12:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jones, Smith	62 min
Dec 14, 12:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena	15 min
Dec 14, 12:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	15 min
Dec 14, 12:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	41 min
Dec 14, 12:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	44 min
Dec 14, 12:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	53 min
Dec 14, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	66 min
Dec 14, 1:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James	3 hr
Dec 14, 1:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale	33 min
Dec 14, 1:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton	57 min
Dec 14, 1:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	40 min
Dec 14, 1:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	39 min
Dec 14, 1:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	3 hr
Dec 14, 1:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	44 min
Dec 14, 1:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	56 min
Dec 14, 1:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	47 min
Dec 14, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	58 min
Dec 14, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	60 min
Dec 14, 2:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	17 min
Dec 14, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles	29 min
Dec 14, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	39 min
Dec 14, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	49 min
Dec 14, 2:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	33 min
Dec 14, 2:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	3 hr
Dec 14, 2:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	14 min
Dec 14, 2:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	16 min
Dec 14, 3:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	41 min
Dec 14, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	29 min
Dec 14, 3:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LIX	Saint Tammany	11 min
Dec 14, 3:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	2 hr
Dec 14, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	47 min
Dec 14, 3:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles	31 min
Dec 14, 3:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	3 hr
Dec 14, 3:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	22 min
Dec 14, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	40 min
Dec 14, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	52 min
Dec 14, 3:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles	46 min
Dec 14, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Perry, Stone	49 min
Dec 14, 4:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles	2 hr
Dec 14, 4:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	36 min
Dec 14, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	47 min
Dec 14, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	28 min
Dec 14, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	48 min
Dec 14, 4:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	47 min
Dec 14, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	45 min
Dec 14, 5:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	18 min
Dec 14, 5:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Greene	26 min
Dec 14, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	41 min
Dec 14, 5:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison, Jackson	31 min
Dec 14, 5:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	49 min
Dec 14, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	36 min
Dec 14, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	32 min
Dec 14, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington	62 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 963 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 4:52 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	83 min
Dec 14, 5:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	7 hr
Dec 14, 11:37 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	113 min
Dec 14, 1:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Washington	85 min
Dec 14, 2:53 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Washington	97 min
Dec 14, 5:01 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Monroe and 3 more	89 min
Dec 14, 5:04 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Covington	56 min
Dec 14, 5:57 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 14 more	7 hr
Dec 13, 6:25 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse and 3 more	8 hr
Dec 13, 7:06 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 12 more	114 min
Dec 13, 8:31 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, LaSalle and 6 more	119 min
Dec 13, 8:48 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 15 more	87 min
Dec 13, 9:33 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 12 more	8 hr
Dec 13, 11:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Feliciana	115 min
Dec 13, 11:42 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Catahoula, Concordia, East Feliciana, Franklin, Madison, Pointe Coupee and 2 more	6 hr
Dec 14, 2:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula and 12 more	2 hr
Dec 14, 9:47 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia and 16 more	118 min
Dec 14, 4:35 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jefferson, Saint Bernard	115 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.