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Tornado Watch 33
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2025, 4:59 PM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 29 parishes in Louisiana; 32 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2025, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 63 counties
Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 60%
- 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
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 10:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, Newton | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Franklin, Fulton and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 11 more | 115 min |
| Mar 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Evangeline, Franklin and 7 more | 2 hr |
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.