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Tornado Watch 186

May 6, 202624 parishes in Louisiana; 43 counties in Mississippi; Jasper County, Newton County, Sabine County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2026, 2:14 PM CDT for 24 parishes in Louisiana; 43 counties in Mississippi; Jasper County, Newton County, Sabine County, Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2026, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 70 counties

Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Sabine County, TX

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
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: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

40 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	10 min
May 6, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	51 min
May 6, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Rapides	4 hr
May 6, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Concordia	28 min
May 6, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison	45 min
May 6, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Lincoln	34 min
May 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Rankin, Scott	39 min
May 6, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	57 min
May 6, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	13 min
May 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	55 min
May 6, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	53 min
May 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	63 min
May 6, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	61 min
May 6, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	49 min
May 6, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Kemper	54 min
May 6, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	49 min
May 6, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	JAN	Adams, Franklin	63 min
May 6, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	58 min
May 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	40 min
May 6, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith	34 min
May 6, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	51 min
May 6, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	31 min
May 6, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	34 min
May 6, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	65 min
May 6, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAN	Forrest	22 min
May 6, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	35 min
May 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	40 min
May 6, 7:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides, Vernon	2 hr
May 6, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedConsiderable damage threat	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln	61 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	60 min
May 6, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	31 min
May 6, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	116 min
May 6, 10:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln	4 hr
May 6, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	4 hr
May 6, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike, Walthall	60 min
May 6, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	56 min
May 6, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	25 min
May 6, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	40 min
May 6, 10:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion	67 min
May 6, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	25 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -259 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 11:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Feliciana, LaSalle, Saint Helena and 4 more	3 hr
May 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concordia	2 hr
May 6, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concordia, Saint Helena	83 min
May 5, 8:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	DeSoto	2 hr
May 6, 12:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall and 8 more	2 hr
May 6, 5:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Crockett, Edwards and 14 more	2 hr
May 6, 8:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kimble, Llano, Mason	56 min
May 6, 8:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 17 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.