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Tornado Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 12, 2025, 12:04 PM CST for 41 parishes in Louisiana; 10 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2025, 12:04 PM CST (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2025, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 51 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 29 min |
| Feb 12, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 10 min |
| Feb 12, 1:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 5 min |
| Feb 12, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 41 min |
| Feb 12, 1:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson, Pearl River | 46 days |
| Feb 12, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Feb 12, 2:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 61 min |
| Feb 12, 2:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 30 min |
| Feb 12, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 62 min |
| Feb 12, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Feb 12, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 34 min |
| Feb 12, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 38 min |
| Feb 12, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Feb 12, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 46 days |
| Feb 12, 3:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 61 min |
| Feb 12, 4:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 46 days |
| Feb 12, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson, Pike, Walthall | 46 days |
| Feb 12, 4:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Jefferson and 4 more | 2 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | De Soto, Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Vernon and 1 more | 67 min |
| Feb 12, 11:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Catahoula and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 1:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 8 hr |
| Feb 12, 5:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 94 min |
| Feb 12, 1:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin and 18 more | 3 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.