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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 304
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2018, 11:57 AM CDT for 11 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2018, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 15 min |
| Jul 22, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 18 min |
| Jul 22, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Henry, Lee, Russell | 92 min |
| Jul 21, 10:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 10 hr |
| Jul 22, 11:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 12:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 115 min |
| Jul 22, 9:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 24 more | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie and 16 more | 66 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.