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Tornado Watch 640
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 24, 2025, 10:46 PM CST for 6 parishes in Louisiana; 22 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 2025, 10:46 PM CST (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 2025, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 28 counties
Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Warren County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 12:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Tensas | 48 min |
| Nov 25, 1:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 43 min |
| Nov 25, 1:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 48 min |
| Nov 25, 2:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott | 40 min |
| Nov 25, 4:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton | 53 min |
| Nov 25, 4:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 49 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 6:36 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Caldwell, De Soto and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Jackson and 9 more | 113 min |
| Nov 25, 1:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas | 92 min |
| Nov 25, 3:42 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton and 3 more | 93 min |
| Nov 25, 12:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene | 114 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.