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Tornado Watch 94
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2022, 3:18 AM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Union County, Arkansas; 47 parishes in Louisiana; 50 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2022, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 100 counties
Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Union County, AR, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Richland 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 Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson 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, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita | 38 min |
| Apr 5, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas, West Carroll | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 20 min |
| Apr 5, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Webster | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson | 22 min |
| Apr 5, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Franklin, Tensas | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott, Smith | 80 min |
| Apr 5, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 17 min |
| Apr 5, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 17 min |
| Apr 5, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 6:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 6:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton | 92 min |
| Apr 5, 7:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 7:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 55 min |
| Apr 5, 7:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 7:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Smith | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 7:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Helena | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 2 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 5, 6:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Perry and 2 more | 90 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.