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Tornado Watch 100
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2025, 3:49 PM CDT for 9 counties in Arkansas; 11 parishes in Louisiana; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2025, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 10:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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
- 50%
- 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
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Claiborne, Webster | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 21 min |
| Apr 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia | 8 min |
| Apr 2, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 19 min |
| Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 52 min |
| Apr 2, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Union | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union | 45 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1713 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 636 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 8:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller | 117 min |
| Apr 2, 11:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 17 more | 96 min |
| Apr 2, 12:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 6 more | 114 min |
| Apr 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Conway, Franklin, Fulton, Garland and 13 more | 94 min |
| Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead and 25 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Little River, Miller | 117 min |
| Apr 2, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Mississippi | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 30 more | 115 min |
| Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 8 more | 93 min |
| Apr 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson and 10 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.