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Tornado Watch 66
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 28, 2025, 12:23 PM CDT for 11 parishes in Louisiana; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2025, 12:23 PM CDT (17:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2025, 8:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Beauregard Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Cass County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Marion County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 12:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Sabine | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 5 min |
| Mar 28, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 8 min |
| Mar 28, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Sabine | 12 min |
| Mar 28, 4:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Sabine | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 24 min |
| Mar 28, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 16 min |
| Mar 28, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 39 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Calcasieu, De Soto, Sabine | 119 min |
| Mar 28, 12:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River and 2 more | 83 min |
| Mar 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, De Soto, Natchitoches and 4 more | 93 min |
| Mar 28, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beauregard, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, De Soto, Red River and 2 more | 119 min |
| Mar 28, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Matagorda | 88 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.