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Tornado Watch 198
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2025, 1:06 PM CDT for Columbia County, Union County, Arkansas; 12 parishes in Louisiana; 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2025, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 43 counties
Columbia 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, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bell County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Houston County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 1:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 5 more | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Hill, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 5:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 118 min |
| Apr 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, McLennan | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, McLennan | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam | 54 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 903 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 11:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more | 84 min |
| Apr 30, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Chicot, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 17 more | 92 min |
| Apr 30, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Webster | 118 min |
| Apr 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Jack, Montague and 2 more | 96 min |
| Apr 29, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Baylor, Borden, Clay, Cooke and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Foard, Grayson and 5 more | 96 min |
| Apr 30, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Foard and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 9:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 19 more | 113 min |
| Apr 30, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 20 more | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bexar, Caldwell, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe and 4 more | 89 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.