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Tornado Watch 235
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2025, 5:19 PM CDT for 21 parishes in Louisiana; 19 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2025, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2025, 12:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 41 min |
| May 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 44 min |
| May 6, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa | 49 min |
| May 6, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 18 min |
| May 6, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse and 3 more | 41 min |
| May 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 63 min |
| May 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Feliciana | 38 min |
| May 6, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 18 min |
| May 6, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 3 hr |
| May 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 49 min |
| May 6, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Tangipahoa | 31 min |
| May 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 39 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 22 more | 91 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, De Soto, Evangeline, Grant and 7 more | 86 min |
| May 6, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell and 14 more | 87 min |
| May 6, 4:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Saint Helena and 4 more | 88 min |
| May 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 37 more | 119 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.