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Tornado Watch 129
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2025, 10:25 PM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana; 43 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2025, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2025, 7:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 47 counties
East Feliciana Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
45 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 19 min |
| Apr 5, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson | 76 min |
| Apr 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Yazoo | 76 min |
| Apr 5, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Holmes, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Leake | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Rankin, Scott | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 1:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 22 min |
| Apr 6, 1:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Winston | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Rankin, Scott | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Rankin, Scott | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith | 57 min |
| Apr 6, 2:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee, Winston | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 2:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 2:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Rankin, Simpson, Smith | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 3:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith | 67 min |
| Apr 6, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 39 min |
| Apr 6, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 18 min |
| Apr 6, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones, Newton, Scott, Smith | 58 min |
| Apr 6, 4:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones, Smith | 51 min |
| Apr 6, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 25 min |
| Apr 6, 5:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 5:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Panola, Pontotoc, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 5:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 67 min |
| Apr 6, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 5:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 33 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 8:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar, Lauderdale and 7 more | 90 min |
| Apr 6, 1:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, DeKalb, Etowah, Marshall, St. Clair | 54 min |
| Apr 6, 2:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Jefferson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 113 min |
| Apr 6, 7:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 7 more | 116 min |
| Apr 6, 9:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 32 more | 96 min |
| Apr 6, 10:01 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 17 more | 97 min |
| Apr 6, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more | 87 min |
| Apr 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 13 more | 117 min |
| Apr 5, 8:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 14 more | 96 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.