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Tornado Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 14, 2026, 3:49 PM CST for 9 parishes in Louisiana; 39 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2026, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2026, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 48 counties
Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Marion County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery 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, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk | 42 min |
| Feb 14, 4:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison | 25 min |
| Feb 14, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola and 2 more | 48 min |
| Feb 14, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison | 18 min |
| Feb 14, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby | 47 min |
| Feb 14, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado, Jackson, Wharton | 45 min |
| Feb 14, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery, Waller | 31 min |
| Feb 14, 5:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, San Augustine | 23 min |
| Feb 14, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 50 min |
| Feb 14, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Waller, Wharton | 45 min |
| Feb 14, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 23 min |
| Feb 14, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson | 23 min |
| Feb 14, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty | 68 min |
| Feb 14, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 39 min |
| Feb 14, 6:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 24 min |
| Feb 14, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 27 min |
| Feb 14, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 21 min |
| Feb 14, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 47 min |
| Feb 14, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 42 min |
| Feb 14, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 39 min |
| Feb 14, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn | 48 min |
| Feb 14, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 19 min |
| Feb 14, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 64 min |
| Feb 14, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 8:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Orange | 28 min |
| Feb 14, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 51 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | De Soto, Sabine | 2 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crane and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 14, 10:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 37 more | 116 min |
| Feb 14, 2:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt and 16 more | 117 min |
| Feb 14, 5:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 90 min |
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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.