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Tornado Watch 632

October 25, 202528 parishes in Louisiana; Amite County, Wilkinson County, Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 25, 2025, 11:03 PM CDT for 28 parishes in Louisiana; Amite County, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 25, 2025, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 30 counties

Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
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
30%
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis53 min
Oct 25, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Vernon21 min
Oct 25, 11:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Vernon4 hr
Oct 25, 11:44 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHCalcasieu16 min
Oct 25, 11:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis18 min
Oct 26, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Cameron48 min
Oct 26, 12:22 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHCalcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis23 min
Oct 26, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis60 min
Oct 26, 1:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHRapides4 hr
Oct 26, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Cameron, Lafayette, Vermilion55 min
Oct 26, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite, Wilkinson28 min
Oct 26, 4:37 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXAscension, Livingston23 min
Oct 26, 5:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist27 min
Oct 26, 5:54 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXSaint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington36 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 9:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 20 more2 hr
Oct 26, 1:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry and 3 more83 min
Oct 26, 3:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCOrleans, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington118 min
Oct 26, 5:23 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCJefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 3 more9 hr
Oct 26, 6:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany and 1 more88 min
Oct 26, 8:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeorge, Greene, Jackson, Perry84 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.