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Tornado Watch 62
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 25, 2024, 6:53 PM CDT for 11 parishes in Louisiana; 48 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2024, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 59 counties
Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena 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, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo | 44 min |
| Mar 25, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Madison, Warren | 59 min |
| Mar 25, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 23 min |
| Mar 25, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 10:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Jones, Smith | 34 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Catahoula and 23 more | 6 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 |
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.