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Tornado Watch 28
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 24, 2023, 5:25 PM CST for 31 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2023, 5:25 PM CST (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2023, 12:54 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee 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, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA
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
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 26 min |
| Jan 24, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 24 min |
| Jan 24, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 21 min |
| Jan 24, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, St. Mary and 1 more | 74 min |
| Jan 24, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 6:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 52 min |
| Jan 24, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge and 1 more | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James and 1 more | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 8:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 8:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 8:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James and 2 more | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 9:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Lafourche, Livingston, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 9:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles, Terrebonne | 39 min |
| Jan 24, 10:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 10:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 10:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 25 min |
| Jan 24, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 50 min |
| Jan 24, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 35 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 10:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calcasieu, Cameron | 119 min |
| Jan 24, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 7 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, Iberia and 9 more | 2 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.