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Tornado Watch 93
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 4, 2022, 10:51 PM CDT for Columbia County, Lafayette County, Miller County, Arkansas; 7 parishes in Louisiana; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2022, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 28 counties
Columbia County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Miller County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 45 min |
| Apr 4, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Red River, Titus | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris, Red River, Titus | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 3 more | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Gregg, Rusk, Smith | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 58 min |
| Apr 5, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Smith | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada, Union | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union and 1 more | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, De Soto, Jackson, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 51 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 319 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
- 969 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:18 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Union | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Martin, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa and 2 more | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Fannin and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cooke, Wise | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 9:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall | 117 min |
| Apr 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 5 more | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallas, Ellis, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, DeWitt, Dimmit, Duval and 13 more | 2 hr |
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.