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Tornado Watch 514

July 8, 20247 counties in Arkansas; 24 parishes in Louisiana; 30 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 8, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 24 parishes in Louisiana; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2024, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 61 counties

Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Union County, AR, Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Marion County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Walker County, TX

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: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 5%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 5%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 30%

Warnings issued inside it

100 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 10:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	30 min
Jul 8, 10:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Orange	7 hr
Jul 8, 10:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	46 min
Jul 8, 10:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	24 min
Jul 8, 10:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	9 min
Jul 8, 11:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris	2 hr
Jul 8, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine	45 min
Jul 8, 11:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Jasper	19 min
Jul 8, 11:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	20 min
Jul 8, 12:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	17 min
Jul 8, 12:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	56 min
Jul 8, 12:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper	11 min
Jul 8, 12:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	24 min
Jul 8, 12:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	52 min
Jul 8, 12:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	19 min
Jul 8, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	15 min
Jul 8, 1:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	28 min
Jul 8, 1:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Panola, Rusk, Smith	41 min
Jul 8, 1:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	22 min
Jul 8, 1:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto	36 min
Jul 8, 1:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper	33 min
Jul 8, 1:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	47 min
Jul 8, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk, Shelby	45 min
Jul 8, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	64 min
Jul 8, 1:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola, San Augustine, Shelby	10 min
Jul 8, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	27 min
Jul 8, 1:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper	20 min
Jul 8, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison, Panola	48 min
Jul 8, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	45 min
Jul 8, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson	15 min
Jul 8, 1:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	53 min
Jul 8, 1:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	31 min
Jul 8, 2:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk, Shelby	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Shelby, Smith	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Smith, Upshur	41 min
Jul 8, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	40 min
Jul 8, 2:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Red River	49 min
Jul 8, 2:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk	42 min
Jul 8, 2:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Caddo	39 min
Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto, Red River	16 min
Jul 8, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	18 min
Jul 8, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Red River	25 min
Jul 8, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	34 min
Jul 8, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Bossier	46 min
Jul 8, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Natchitoches, Winn	28 min
Jul 8, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Camp, Gregg, Harrison, Upshur	52 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	35 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk	17 min
Jul 8, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	49 min
Jul 8, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Natchitoches, Red River	47 min
Jul 8, 3:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Natchitoches, Winn	52 min
Jul 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	52 min
Jul 8, 3:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Smith, Upshur	5 hr
Jul 8, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	49 min
Jul 8, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	32 min
Jul 8, 3:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	30 min
Jul 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Panola, Rusk	47 min
Jul 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Panola, Shelby	41 min
Jul 8, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	39 min
Jul 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion, Morris	48 min
Jul 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	31 min
Jul 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Red River, Webster	46 min
Jul 8, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne, Webster	44 min
Jul 8, 3:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	38 min
Jul 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River	24 min
Jul 8, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Wood	25 min
Jul 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	45 min
Jul 8, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris, Titus	30 min
Jul 8, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia	39 min
Jul 8, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Webster	38 min
Jul 8, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Miller	52 min
Jul 8, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	49 min
Jul 8, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	40 min
Jul 8, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	50 min
Jul 8, 4:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Winn	3 hr
Jul 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	15 min
Jul 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby, Smith	3 hr
Jul 8, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Miller	39 min
Jul 8, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Little River, Miller	46 min
Jul 8, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	26 min
Jul 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River	49 min
Jul 8, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	34 min
Jul 8, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada	46 min
Jul 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	40 min
Jul 8, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	36 min
Jul 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	15 min
Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	45 min
Jul 8, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln	26 min
Jul 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Lincoln	25 min
Jul 8, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	41 min
Jul 8, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	36 min
Jul 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada	19 min
Jul 8, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	31 min
Jul 8, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Winn	28 min
Jul 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Nevada	39 min
Jul 8, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	11 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Union	117 min
Jul 8, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 29 more	10 hr
Jul 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Hempstead, Lafayette and 3 more	2 hr
Jul 8, 7:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Sabine, Vernon	2 hr
Jul 8, 11:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 4 more	116 min
Jul 7, 7:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard and 13 more	2 hr
Jul 7, 10:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Jackson and 3 more	3 hr
Jul 7, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 8 more	11 hr
Jul 8, 2:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Galveston	107 min
Jul 8, 4:38 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Parmer	97 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.