Overview
- Tornado Watch 633 was in effect from 5:25 a.m. to noon CDT on Oct. 26 for parts of southeast Louisiana, southern Mississippi and adjacent coastal waters.
- Forecasters highlighted a risk of a couple of tornadoes and isolated damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph as a broken band of storms gained supercell characteristics.
- SPC reported a notable uptick in intensity with a couple of radar-confirmed tornadoes as storms tracked east across the watch area Sunday morning.
- Downstream assessments for coastal Mississippi and Alabama into the western Florida Panhandle kept the risk localized, stating a new watch was not expected.
- Later monitoring along the Florida Panhandle noted high confidence in two waterspouts offshore near Panama City, with any brief tornado threat onshore described as confined and conditional.