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Tornado Watch 122

April 5, 20255 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2025, 9:56 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2025, 9:56 AM CDT (14:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 98 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, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Union County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Angelina County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:56 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
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: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

83 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	73 min
Apr 5, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring and 3 more	48 min
Apr 5, 10:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis	8 hr
Apr 5, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada, Union	81 min
Apr 5, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie and 3 more	47 min
Apr 5, 11:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson and 1 more	41 min
Apr 5, 11:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	3 hr
Apr 5, 11:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	13 hr
Apr 5, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Jefferson, Lonoke and 3 more	35 min
Apr 5, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more	41 min
Apr 5, 11:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden	7 hr
Apr 5, 11:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Lincoln and 1 more	48 min
Apr 5, 11:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson and 1 more	10 hr
Apr 5, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	70 min
Apr 5, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Arkansas, Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Jefferson, Lonoke and 4 more	38 min
Apr 5, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis	54 min
Apr 5, 12:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett	39 min
Apr 5, 12:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	51 min
Apr 5, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp, Woodruff	47 min
Apr 5, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 3 more	59 min
Apr 5, 12:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	42 min
Apr 5, 12:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	8 hr
Apr 5, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	54 min
Apr 5, 12:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	45 min
Apr 5, 12:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	47 min
Apr 5, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	49 min
Apr 5, 1:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	44 min
Apr 5, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	50 min
Apr 5, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	47 min
Apr 5, 1:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	43 min
Apr 5, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Lee, Mississippi and 3 more	54 min
Apr 5, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson and 2 more	47 min
Apr 5, 1:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	44 min
Apr 5, 1:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	51 min
Apr 5, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	20 min
Apr 5, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	15 min
Apr 5, 1:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Obion and 1 more	8 hr
Apr 5, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	53 min
Apr 5, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	24 min
Apr 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Mississippi	46 min
Apr 5, 2:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	6 hr
Apr 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln	42 min
Apr 5, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	50 min
Apr 5, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	27 min
Apr 5, 2:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	MEG	Crittenden	6 hr
Apr 5, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	65 min
Apr 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	94 min
Apr 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	64 min
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	90 min
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henderson	39 min
Apr 5, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 3 more	43 min
Apr 5, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Shelby	40 min
Apr 5, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Phillips	52 min
Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Calhoun, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe and 2 more	8 hr
Apr 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Henry and 2 more	58 min
Apr 5, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Phillips	25 min
Apr 5, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	16 min
Apr 5, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	16 min
Apr 5, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	26 min
Apr 5, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	6 hr
Apr 5, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	40 min
Apr 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	49 min
Apr 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate	42 min
Apr 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	52 min
Apr 5, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower	64 min
Apr 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia, Union	6 hr
Apr 5, 4:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River and 1 more	5 hr
Apr 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	39 min
Apr 5, 4:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Desha, Drew and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	49 min
Apr 5, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate	61 min
Apr 5, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	5 hr
Apr 5, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	52 min
Apr 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Tippah	62 min
Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Stone and 2 more	4 hr
Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Yalobusha	44 min
Apr 5, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall	33 min
Apr 5, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah, Union	33 min
Apr 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union	38 min
Apr 5, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Prentiss, Tippah, Union	41 min
Apr 5, 6:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 5, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	40 min
Apr 5, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Union	47 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 17.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 8:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway, Craighead and 28 more	86 min
Apr 4, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 29 more	9 hr
Apr 4, 11:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleveland, Columbia, Craighead and 23 more	119 min
Apr 5, 2:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi	2 hr
Apr 5, 4:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more	2 hr
Apr 5, 9:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 28 more	119 min
Apr 5, 11:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie and 3 more	114 min
Apr 5, 12:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Pike, Polk, Sevier	117 min
Apr 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chicot, Desha, Phillips	2 hr
Apr 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	7 hr
Apr 5, 10:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vernon	2 hr
Apr 5, 12:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beauregard, Vernon	8 hr
Apr 5, 2:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beauregard, Sabine, Vernon	83 min
Apr 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle and 6 more	5 hr
Apr 5, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcorn, Benton	116 min
Apr 5, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcorn, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 12 more	87 min
Apr 5, 1:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Henry, Lake, Montgomery, Obion, Stewart, Weakley	87 min
Apr 5, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 30 more	7 hr
Apr 5, 5:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Campbell, Claiborne, Clay, Fentress, Grainger, Hancock and 7 more	63 min
Apr 4, 10:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Coryell, Edwards and 21 more	2 hr
Apr 4, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brown, Burnet and 34 more	6 hr
Apr 5, 1:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Bandera, Baylor, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 49 more	114 min

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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.