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Tornado Watch 127
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2025, 6:39 PM CDT for 12 parishes in Louisiana; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2025, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2025, 11:56 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Sabine County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Red River and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 12 min |
| Apr 5, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 18 min |
| Apr 5, 9:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 13 min |
| Apr 5, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Winn | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 6 hr |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 119 min |
| Apr 5, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 9 more | 9 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, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Madison, West Carroll | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse and 3 more | 7 hr |
| 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 |
| Apr 5, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 12 more | 117 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.