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Tornado Watch 1
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 8, 2024, 1:37 PM CST for 16 parishes in Louisiana; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2024, 1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2024, 11:09 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 34 min |
| Jan 8, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto | 23 min |
| Jan 8, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 17 min |
| Jan 8, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 28 min |
| Jan 8, 2:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 31 min |
| Jan 8, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 44 min |
| Jan 8, 2:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 40 min |
| Jan 8, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 31 min |
| Jan 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 35 min |
| Jan 8, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Wharton | 27 min |
| Jan 8, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Wharton | 22 min |
| Jan 8, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 41 min |
| Jan 8, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 27 min |
| Jan 8, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 28 min |
| Jan 8, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 51 min |
| Jan 8, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 47 min |
| Jan 8, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 27 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 805 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 8, 12:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 9 more | 55 min |
| Jan 8, 3:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 5:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 7 more | 54 min |
| Jan 8, 6:59 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Ellis, Erath and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 9:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.