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Tornado Watch 61
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 25, 2024, 1:46 PM CDT for 6 counties in Arkansas; 29 parishes in Louisiana; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2024, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 41 counties
Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Drew County, AR, Union County, AR, Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Sabine County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Vernon | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle, Winn | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Chicot | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, West Carroll | 53 min |
| Mar 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Chicot | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, West Carroll | 3 hr |
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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 300 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 12:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Claiborne and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, Grant, LaSalle and 2 more | 118 min |
| Mar 25, 6:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Eastland and 12 more | 4 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.