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Tornado Watch 88
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 26, 2023, 3:57 PM CDT for 11 parishes in Louisiana; 37 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2023, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 48 counties
Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hinds 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, Madison 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, Warren County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 60%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin, Tensas | 62 min |
| Mar 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 58 min |
| Mar 26, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 36 min |
| Mar 26, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Scott, Smith | 70 min |
| Mar 26, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, West Carroll | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin, Tensas | 68 min |
| Mar 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Warren, Yazoo | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 48 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 1834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint Tammany and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Sabine, Vernon | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 12:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, De Soto, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Rapides and 4 more | 92 min |
| Mar 26, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catahoula, Concordia, East Feliciana, Franklin, Madison, Pointe Coupee and 5 more | 114 min |
| Mar 25, 10:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clarke, Hinds, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba and 5 more | 119 min |
| Mar 26, 7:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Smith | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 11:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton and 3 more | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale, Noxubee | 119 min |
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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.