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Tornado Watch 25
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2019, 12:11 PM CDT for 31 counties in Alabama; 21 counties in Mississippi; 32 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2019, 12:11 PM CDT (17:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 84 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 12:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 21 min |
| Mar 14, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 12:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 18 min |
| Mar 14, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 58 min |
| Mar 14, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 54 min |
| Mar 14, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 51 min |
| Mar 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 52 min |
| Mar 14, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 22 min |
| Mar 14, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 64 min |
| Mar 14, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 53 min |
| Mar 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 44 min |
| Mar 14, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 27 min |
| Mar 14, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, Walker | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 57 min |
| Mar 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 52 min |
| Mar 14, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Marshall | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah, St. Clair | 82 min |
| Mar 14, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 32 min |
| Mar 14, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 58 min |
| Mar 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair | 66 min |
| Mar 14, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 56 min |
| Mar 14, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 68 min |
| Mar 14, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 47 min |
| Mar 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 29 min |
| Mar 14, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton | 40 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 554 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 695 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 1 more | 58 min |
| Mar 14, 11:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson and 12 more | 88 min |
| Mar 14, 1:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fayette, Lamar, Marion | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 10 more | 92 min |
| Mar 14, 5:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 22 more | 96 min |
| Mar 14, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Sunflower and 3 more | 88 min |
| Mar 14, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 7:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Coahoma and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 14 more | 95 min |
| Mar 14, 2:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Obion, Stewart, Weakley | 83 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.