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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2024, 3:35 PM CDT for 14 parishes in Louisiana; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2024, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 30 counties
Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Marion County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 70 min |
| Jun 1, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Smith, Upshur | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Sabine | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River, Sabine | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, De Soto, Jackson, Natchitoches, Red River and 3 more | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 46 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 2390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 8 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 118 min |
| Jun 1, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River and 1 more | 94 min |
| May 31, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 31, 8:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson and 14 more | 2 hr |
| May 31, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend and 11 more | 118 min |
| Jun 1, 10:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 14 more | 115 min |
| Jun 1, 12:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Collin, Dallas, Franklin, Hopkins, Hunt and 5 more | 114 min |
| Jun 1, 1:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam | 114 min |
| Jun 1, 1:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Cochran, Crane, Culberson, Ector and 13 more | 87 min |
| Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Ellis, Freestone, Gregg, Henderson and 6 more | 90 min |
| Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dallam, Hartley | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Ector, Loving, Pecos, Reeves and 4 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.