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Tornado Watch 60
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2022, 7:08 AM CDT for 25 parishes in Louisiana; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 7:08 AM CDT (12:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 2:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 31 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:10 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn | 41 min |
| Mar 22, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 8:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 32 min |
| Mar 22, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 9:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 35 min |
| Mar 22, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas | 56 min |
| Mar 22, 10:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 21 min |
| Mar 22, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 10:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison, Tensas | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 11:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 12:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Rapides and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Avoyelles, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 3 hr |
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 57 min |
| Mar 21, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Sabine, Webster | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo | 114 min |
| Mar 22, 1:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Webster | 97 min |
| Mar 22, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 20 more | 90 min |
| Mar 22, 9:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Cameron, Concordia, East Baton Rouge and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 116 min |
| Mar 22, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Orleans, Saint Charles and 6 more | 115 min |
| Mar 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Livingston, Orleans, Saint Helena, Saint James and 4 more | 87 min |
| Mar 22, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Grenada, Itawamba and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lowndes | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George | 7 hr |
| Mar 21, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 32 more | 96 min |
| Mar 21, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Brazos, Cherokee, Freestone, Henderson, Houston and 8 more | 93 min |
| Mar 21, 10:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio and 2 more | 95 min |
| Mar 22, 12:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Colorado and 27 more | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 12:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 20 more | 8 hr |
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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.