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Tornado Watch 7
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 14, 2026, 11:17 PM CST for 6 counties in Alabama; 12 parishes in Louisiana; 23 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2026, 11:17 PM CST (05:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2026, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 41 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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
- 50%
- 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
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 70 min |
| Feb 14, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 69 min |
| Feb 14, 11:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Helena and 4 more | 47 min |
| Feb 15, 12:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Saint James | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 12:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 12:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Terrebonne | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion | 80 min |
| Feb 15, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 12:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Marion | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 65 min |
| Feb 15, 12:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 5 more | 61 min |
| Feb 15, 12:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 34 min |
| Feb 15, 12:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 1:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles | 22 min |
| Feb 15, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones, Smith | 60 min |
| Feb 15, 1:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones, Smith | 20 min |
| Feb 15, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 48 min |
| Feb 15, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles | 47 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 10:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:04 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 116 min |
| Feb 15, 6:45 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 2 hr |
| Feb 15, 7:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
| Feb 14, 6:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 40 more | 118 min |
| Feb 14, 6:54 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 14, 9:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 4 more | 58 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.