Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Watches in 2025
Tornado Watch 1
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 5, 2025, 10:29 AM CST for 18 counties in Arkansas; 22 parishes in Louisiana; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2025, 10:29 AM CST (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 61 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Union County, AR, Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Morehouse 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, Cherokee County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Marion County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton 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, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 41 min |
| Jan 5, 11:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 56 min |
| Jan 5, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Union | 66 min |
| Jan 5, 11:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 62 min |
| Jan 5, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 53 min |
| Jan 5, 12:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Jackson, Ouachita | 27 min |
| Jan 5, 12:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 58 min |
| Jan 5, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Lincoln, Ouachita | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 12:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster | 44 min |
| Jan 5, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn | 29 min |
| Jan 5, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 30 min |
| Jan 5, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Red River, Webster | 53 min |
| Jan 5, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 59 min |
| Jan 5, 1:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union | 41 min |
| Jan 5, 1:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Morehouse, West Carroll | 67 min |
| Jan 5, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 66 min |
| Jan 5, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jan 5, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 21 min |
| Jan 5, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 50 min |
| Jan 5, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jan 5, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jan 5, 2:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Ashley | 59 min |
| Jan 5, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Chicot | 57 min |
| Jan 5, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 48 min |
| Jan 5, 2:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 67 min |
| Jan 5, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 63 min |
| Jan 5, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn | 45 min |
| Jan 5, 3:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha | 16 min |
| Jan 5, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 38 min |
| Jan 5, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Chicot | 45 min |
| Jan 5, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Rapides | 33 min |
| Jan 5, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 28 min |
| Jan 5, 5:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle | 15 min |
| Jan 5, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 15 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 9:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 1:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot, Desha | 96 min |
| Jan 5, 1:36 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Phillips | 9 hr |
| Jan 5, 12:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Natchitoches and 5 more | 97 min |
| Jan 5, 2:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas, West Carroll | 88 min |
| Jan 5, 3:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides and 2 more | 86 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.