Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 57
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2019, 1:04 AM CDT for 25 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2019, 1:04 AM CDT (06:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Moore County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 15 min |
| Apr 14, 4:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 6:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 6:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 7:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 7:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 8:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Russell | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 8:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 48 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 19 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 13, 8:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Washington | 95 min |
| Apr 13, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Colbert, Cullman and 19 more | 92 min |
| Apr 13, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more | 119 min |
| Apr 14, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 2 more | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 2:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 10 more | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 18 more | 115 min |
| Apr 14, 5:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 18 more | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 7:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Henry, Houston, Russell | 83 min |
| Apr 14, 6:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 69 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Lincoln, McDuffie and 5 more | 117 min |
| Apr 14, 11:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Elbert, Emanuel and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch and 9 more | 83 min |
| Apr 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 20 more | 116 min |
| Apr 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Effingham | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham and 11 more | 2 hr |
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.