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Tornado Watch 109
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2025, 2:14 PM CDT for 20 counties in Arkansas; 5 parishes in Louisiana; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2025, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Union County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline and 1 more | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada | 15 min |
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada | 20 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring, Ouachita | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 20.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross, Jefferson and 7 more | 117 min |
| Apr 3, 11:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 32 more | 113 min |
| Apr 3, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Lee, Phillips | 9 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Columbia, Drew and 6 more | 92 min |
| Apr 3, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Crittenden, Desha and 6 more | 96 min |
| Apr 2, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 24 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.